melancolique
See also: mélancolique
Middle English
Old French
Etymology
Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”), from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).
Adjective
melancolique m (oblique and nominative feminine singular melancolique)
- of or relating to black bile
Descendants
- Middle English: malencolik, melancolique, melancolik, melancolyk, malencolike, malancolike, malincolik, malencolyk
- English: melancholic (remodelled after Greek)
- French: mélancolique
- → Romanian: melancolic
- → Turkish: melankolik
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