[Gllug] Fw: goldfish

[itsbruce at uklinux.net]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 08:08:51AM +0100, Nix wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, formi at blueyonder.co.uk mused:
> >  Well, a bit of research left me a bit puzzled:
> > 
> > cor cordis n. [the heart]; often as seat of emotions or thought , [heart, 
> > mind, judgment]; meton., [a person]. 
> > 
> > cardiacus -a -um [pertaining to the stomach]; m. as subst. , [one who 
> > suffers from a disease of the stomach].
> 
> Uh, what?!
> 
> I don't know enough Latin to know where *that* came from but I guess it
> got left behind by English medicspeak :)

The confusion started earlier than that.  In Norman Latin, Cardia can
mean both heart and stomach.  I don't know if this has anything to do
with the fact that mediaeval Europeans saw the stomach associated with
most strong emotions other than love.

-- 
Bruce

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