praecordium

praecordium (plural praecordia)

1. Obsolete form of precordium.

prae- +‎ cor +‎ -ium.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [prae̯ˈkɔr.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [preˈkɔr.d̪i.um]

praecordium n (genitive praecordiī or praecordī); second declension

1. diaphragm (midriff)
2. (in the plural) entrails, vitals

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• "praecordium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)