melancholia

Significado (Inglês)

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

Traduções

μελαγχολία

melancholie

zwaarmoedigheid

maestitia

ملنخوليا

droefgeestigheid

Etimologia (Inglês)

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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