קורדייקוס

קוּרְדְּיָיקוֹסm. (καρδιακός) delirious; (sub. חולי) delirium. (This meaning of καρδιακός is not recorded in dictionaries. Gitt.VII, 1 מי שאחזו ק׳וכ׳ one who was seized with delirium and said, Give my wife a letter of divorce ; אמר … אחזו ק׳וכ׳ if he said, Write , and then in a state of delirium said, Do not write Y. ib. 48c (expl. הָמִים). Ib. ק׳ שאמרו חכמים פעמיםוכ׳ the kardiakos of whom the scholars speak, is one who is at times sane and at times insane; Y.Ter.I, 40b קינדייקוס (corr. acc.). Ib. קונדיקוס ק׳ (strike out קונדיקוס, as a corrupt dittography). Gitt.67b (expl. our w.) דנכתיה חמראוכ׳ one whom new wine from the pit has bitten (given delirium tremens); האקמ״ל דהא רוחא ק׳ שמיה the Mishnah, in using that word, intended to teach incidentally that that demon (disease) is named k.