melancholia

Senso (Inglese)

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

Traduzioni

melancholie

μελαγχολία

zwaarmoedigheid

droefgeestigheid

ملنخوليا

maestitia

Etimologia (Inglese)

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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