[Gllug] Fw: goldfish

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

Formi <formi at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> 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].
>
> In spanish there is cardiovascular... vasculum -i n. [a small
vessel].
>
> What I don't understand is the change in the root, cord - card.
> Normally it stays intact.

This illustrates why it's always best to be treated by a doctor who is
fluent in your native language ;-)

Did your research come from:

http://www.nd.edu/~archives/latgramm.htm 

(Google's top result for "latin dictionary")? I also looked up the word
'cardiac' at dictionary.com and got:

   Middle English, from Latin cardiacus, from Greek kardiakos, from
   kardi, heart. See kerd- in Indo-European Roots.

Anyway, when it comes down to it, it was the word 'testiculo' that was
the real 'heart' of the motto...

Wulf



wulf.f-b at uhl.nhs.uk 

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