megrim

Meaning

1. (archaic) A headache; a migraine.
2. (archaic) A fancy, a whim, a caprice.
3. (in-plural) See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).

Synonyms

migraine

sick headache

hemicrania

hemicrany

caprice

melancholy

melancholia

sick

🤢

feeling

temper

whiff

whim

whimsey

whimsy

fancy

migraine headache

Translations

emicrania

migraine

migranya

ημικρανία

Migräne

migraña

enxaqueca

jaqueca

migrana

Hemikranie

migraine

mîgren

شقيقة

cardine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmiːɡɹɪm/

Etymology

Cognate with English: cranium

In summary

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.