καρδιά

See also: καρδία and Καρδία

Greek

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek, with synizesis to avoid hiatus, from Ancient Greek καρδία (kardía), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱḗr.

Cognate with Italiot Greek cardia, Mariupol Greek кардъи́я (karðíja).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /karˈðʝa/

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• Hyphenation: καρ‧διά

Noun

καρδιά • (kardiá) f (plural καρδιές)

1. (anatomy) heart

Declension

Declension of καρδιά

	singular	plural
nominative	καρδιά •	καρδιές •
genitive	καρδιάς •	καρδιών •
accusative	καρδιά •	καρδιές •
vocative	καρδιά •	καρδιές •

Derived terms

• καρδιοπάθεια f (kardiopátheia, “cardiopathy, heart disease”)
• καρδιακή προσβολή f (kardiakí prosvolí, “cardiopathy, heart disease”)
• με όλη μου την καρδιά (me óli mou tin kardiá, “with my whole heart, wholeheartedly”)

See also

• κούπα f (koúpa, “hearts - a suit of playing cards”)

Further reading

• καρδιά, in Λεξικό της κοινής νεοελληνικής [Dictionary of Standard Modern Greek], Triantafyllidis Foundation, 1998 at the Centre for the Greek language