melancholia

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
  2. (countable, uncountable) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

Übersetzungen

melancholie

μελαγχολία

zwaarmoedigheid

αθημία

ملنخوليا

ακεφία

maestitia

Etymologie (Englisch)

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”). Doublet of melancholy.

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