paradigm

noun

• 1 technical a typical example or pattern of something; a model:there is a new paradigm for public art in this country
• a worldview underlying the theories and methodology of a particular scientific subject:the discovery of universal gravitation became the paradigm of successful science

• 2a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles:English determiners form a paradigm: we can say “a book” or “his book” but not “a his book.”Often contrasted with syntagm.
• (in the traditional grammar of Latin, Greek, and other inflected languages) a table of all the inflected forms of a particular verb, noun, or adjective, serving as a model for other words of the same conjugation or declension.