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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Proto-Hellenic *kərdíyā, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥díyeh₂, from *ḱérd (“heart”). Cognate with Sanskrit हृदय (hṛ́daya), Latin cor, Old Armenian սիրտ (sirt), Old Church Slavonic срьдьце (srĭdĭce), Old English heorte (whence English heart).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kar.dí.aː/ → /karˈði.a/ → /karˈði.a/
Noun
κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ • (kardíā) f (genitive κᾰρδῐ́ᾱς); first declension
- heart (as the source of emotion, love, etc.)
- mind
- stomach
- any hollow vessel
- center or inner part: pith (of wood), depth (of the sea)
Declension
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References
Further reading
- “καρδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “καρδία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- καρδία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- “καρδία”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G2588 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- “καρδία”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011