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

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