melancholicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.lanˈkʰo.li.kus/, [mɛɫ̪äŋˈkʰɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.lanˈko.li.kus/, [meläŋˈkɔːlikus]
Adjective
melancholicus (feminine melancholica, neuter melancholicum); first/second-declension adjective
- having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | melancholicus | melancholica | melancholicum | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholica | |
| Genitive | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholicī | melancholicōrum | melancholicārum | melancholicōrum | |
| Dative | melancholicō | melancholicō | melancholicīs | ||||
| Accusative | melancholicum | melancholicam | melancholicum | melancholicōs | melancholicās | melancholica | |
| Ablative | melancholicō | melancholicā | melancholicō | melancholicīs | |||
| Vocative | melancholice | melancholica | melancholicum | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholica | |
References
- “melancholicus”, in Charlton T[homas] Lewis; Charles [Lancaster] Short (1879) […] A New Latin Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.: American Book Company; Oxford: Clarendon Press.
- “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- melancholicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette