colerik

colerik

Middle English

Alternative forms

• colerike, coleryke, colleryk, colorik, colloryke, colerique, colryk, colrik

Etymology

From Old French colerique, from Latin cholericus; equivalent to coler (“choler”) +‎ -ik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔlˈɛːrik/, /ˈkɔlɛrik/, /ˈkɔl(ə)rik/

Adjective

colerik

1. Having an extreme and dangerous quantity of yellow bile.
2. Due to the influence or presence of yellow bile.
3. Having one's mood changed by yellow bile; easily angered.
   • 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line 589,

     The REVE was a sclendre colerik man.

4. (rare) Made of or containing yellow bile or choler.
5. (rare) Under the influence of or governed by yellow bile.
6. (rare) Having a proclivity to promote black bile.

Descendants

• English: choleric

References

• “colerik, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.

See also

• humour
• (qualities of the four humours) fleumatik,‎ colerik,‎ malencolik,‎ sanguine ^[edit]