melancholia

From Late Latin melancholia, which was in turn borrowed from the Ancient Greek medical term μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”), from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”).

• Rhymes: -əʊliə

melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy.

   Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness

2. (pathology) Clinical depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy.

• melancholiac

• melancholy
• melancholic

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.lanˈxɔ.lʲa/

• audio

  (file)

melancholia f

1. melancholy

• melancholik, melancholiczka
• melancholiczny
• melancholicznie

• melancholia in Polish dictionaries at PWN