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

1. Made of or containing black bile or melancholy.
2. Under the influence of or governed by black bile.
3. Having one's mood changed by black bile; depressed or raging.
4. Due to the influence or presence of black bile.
5. (rare) Affected by a disease caused by too much black bile.
6. (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]