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