cardiorespiratory
/ˌkɑː.dɪ.əʊ.ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/adjective
cardiorespiratory is an adjective meaning “Pertaining to the heart and breathing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-A-R-D-I-O-R-E-S-P-I-R-A-T-O-R-Y and has 8 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cardiorespiratory mean?
adjective
- 1
Pertaining to the heart and breathing.
cardiorespiratory fitness
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cardiorespiratory?
- UK /ˌkɑː.dɪ.əʊ.ɹɪˈspɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
- UK /ˌkɑː.dɪ.əʊˈɹɛs.pə.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
- UK /ˌkɑː.dɪ.əʊ.ɹɪˈspʌɪ.ɹət.ə.ɹi/
Cardiorespiratory has 8 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cardiorespiratory.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is cardiorespiratory?
Cardiorespiratory appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cardiorespiratory in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pertaining to the heart and breathing:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | kardiorespiratorisch |
| Spanish | cardiorespiratorio |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does cardiorespiratory come from?
From cardio- + respiratory.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).