mélancolie

See also: melancolie

French

Alternative forms

• melancolie (obsolete)
• melancholie (obsolete)
• mélancholie (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French melancolie, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me.lɑ̃.kɔ.li/

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Noun

mélancolie f (plural mélancolies)

1. (historical) melancholy (black bile)
2. melancholy (sadness or depression)

Derived terms

• mélancolique

Further reading

• “mélancolie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.