Cardea

== Italian == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Proper noun === Cardea m or f by sense a surname == Latin == === Alternative forms === Carda === Etymology === From cardō (“hinge”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkar.de.a] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈkar.de.a] === Proper noun === Cardea f sg (genitive Cardeae); first declension (Roman mythology) The goddess who presided over the hinges of doors and therefore over the family ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun, singular only. === References === “Cardea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cardea”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.