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