καρδία : CARDIA;
HEART

Illustrations of English words
derived from the Greek in the New Testament.

Gaylon West.







καρδία^G2588
the heart, that is, (figuratively) the thoughts or feelings (mind); also (by analogy) the middle:
Total KJV Occurrences: 161
English words:
tachycardia (n.)
"rapid heartbeat," from tachy- "swift" + Greek kardia "heart," from PIE root *kerd- "heart."
cardio-
before vowels cardi-, word-forming element meaning "pertaining to the heart," from Greek kardia "heart," from PIE root *kerd- "heart."
myocardium (n.)
1866, from myo- "muscle" + Greek kardia "heart" (from PIE root *kerd- "heart"). Related: Myocardial; myocarditis.
pericardium (n.)
Greek perikardion "(membrane) around the heart" (Galen), from peri (prep.) "around, about" + kardia "heart" (from PIE root *kerd- "heart"). Related: Pericardiac.
cardiac (adj.)
from Greek kardiakos "pertaining to the heart," from kardia "heart," from PIE root *kerd- "heart." Cardiac arrest is attested from 1950.
*kerd-
Proto-Indo-European root meaning "heart."
It forms all or part of:
accord; cardiac; cardio-; concord; core; cordial; courage; credence; credible; credit; credo; credulous; creed; discord; grant; heart; incroyable; megalocardia; miscreant; myocardium; pericarditis; pericardium; quarry (n.1) "what is hunted;" record; recreant; tachycardia.
It is the hypothetical source of Greek kardia