malencolik
Middle English
Alternative forms
- melancolique, melancolik, melancolyk, malencolike, malancolike, malincolik, malencolyk
Etymology
From Old French melancolique, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós); equivalent to malencolie + -ik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /malənˈkɔːlik/, /maˈlɛnkɔlik/, /mɛlənˈkɔːlik/, /mɛˈlɛnkɔlik/
Adjective
malencolik
- Made of or containing black bile or melancholy.
- Under the influence of or governed by black bile.
- Having one's mood changed by black bile; depressed or raging.
- Due to the influence or presence of black bile.
- (rare) Affected by a disease caused by too much black bile.
- (rare) Having a proclivity to produce black bile.
Descendants
- English: melancholic (remodelled after Greek)
References
- “malencolik (adj.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-10.
See also
- humour
- (qualities of the four humours) fleumatik, colerik, malencolik, sanguine [edit]