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- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromκᾰρδῐ́ᾱ
- Ancient Greek · learned borrowing fromκᾰρδῐ́ᾱ
- English today-cardia
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κᾰρδῐ́ᾱ (kărdĭ́ā, “heart”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming abstract nouns), equivalent to cardia + -ia.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.