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