melancholicus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /me.lanˈkʰo.li.kus/, [mɛɫ̪äŋˈkʰɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /me.lanˈko.li.kus/, [meläŋˈkɔːlikus]

Adjective

melancholicus (feminine melancholica, neuter melancholicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	melancholicus	melancholica	melancholicum		melancholicī	melancholicae	melancholica
genitive	melancholicī	melancholicae	melancholicī		melancholicōrum	melancholicārum	melancholicōrum
dative	melancholicō	melancholicae	melancholicō		melancholicīs
accusative	melancholicum	melancholicam	melancholicum		melancholicōs	melancholicās	melancholica
ablative	melancholicō	melancholicā	melancholicō		melancholicīs
vocative	melancholice	melancholica	melancholicum		melancholicī	melancholicae	melancholica

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: melancòlic (learned)
• → Czech: melancholik
• →⇒ German: melancholisch
• → Finnish: melankolikko
• → Old French: melancolique (learned)
  • Middle English: malencolik, melancolique, melancolik, melancolyk, malencolike, malancolike, malincolik, malencolyk
    • English: melancholic (remodelled after Greek)
  • French: mélancolique
    • → Romanian: melancolic
    • → Turkish: melankolik
• → Galician: melancólico (learned)
• → Hungarian: melankolikus
• Italian: malinconico
• → Polish: melancholik
• → Portuguese: melancólico (learned)
• → Spanish: melancólico (learned)

References

• “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, 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.