mélancolie

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (feminine, historical) melancholy, black bile (one of the four humours of ancient and mediaeval physiology, that was believed to be secreted by the kidneys and spleen and to cause melancholy and sadness when present in excess)
2. (feminine) melancholy (sadness or depression)

Sinonieme

abattement

dépression

tristesse

crise

mal de vivre

mélancolique

noirceur

spleen

pour toujours

Dépression

Mélancolie

affliction

cafard

Vertalings

melancholy

Melancholie

melancolía

malinconia

melancholie

melancholia

melancolia

μελαγχολία

Schwermut

Trübsinn

hüzün

gloom

weemoed

Wehmut

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/me.lɑ̃.kɔ.li/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).