melancolie

See also: mélancolie

French

Noun

melancolie f (plural melancolies)

1. Obsolete form of mélancolie.

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

melancolie f

1. plural of melancolia

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Middle English

Noun

melancolie

1. Alternative form of malencolie

Adjective

melancolie

1. Alternative form of malencolie

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Old French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).

Noun

melancolie oblique singular, f (oblique plural melancolies, nominative singular melancolie, nominative plural melancolies)

1. melancholy (sadness or depression)
2. (medicine) melancholy; black bile

Descendants

• Middle English: malencolie, malencolye, malancolie, malancolye, malyncoly, malencoly, malencoli, melancolye, melancolie
  • English: melancholy (remodelled after Latin)
• French: mélancolie

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French mélancolie, ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía); the older variant melanholie was borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Greek μελαγχολία (melancholía).

Pronunciation

• melancolie:

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Noun

melancolie f

1. melancholy (sadness or depression)

Synonyms

• tristețe