pericardium
Meaningaround the heart
Common meaning: the sac that wraps the heart
- periaround
- cardithe heartLiddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), p. 401 · scan
- umLatin neuter ending
‘around’ + ‘the heart’ → pericardium
Journey through time
- Greekκαρδία‘the heart’
- Latinpericardium
- Englishpericardium‘the sac that wraps the heart’ · today
peri- also in: periodperipheryperiscopeperiodontal
cardi also in: cardiaccardiologytachycardia
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
- US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
Origin: Built on Greek καρδία ‘the heart’.
Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry καρδία, p. 401 · dictionary scan
Roots
- καρδία Greek “the heart”
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