melancholia

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.

• Rhymes: -əʊliə

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melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy

   Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness; see also Thesaurus:sadness

2. (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

• melancholiac

• melancholy
• melancholic

• mankalija, mankolia (Kuyavia)
• mankolija (Far Masovian)
• mankoliá (Żywiec)
• menkolijá (“madness”) (Podegrodzie)
• mankolijá (Far Masovian, Kolno, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship)

Learned borrowing from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).

• IPA^(key): /mɛ.lanˈxɔ.lja/

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• Rhymes: -ɔlja
• Syllabification: me‧lan‧cho‧lia

melancholia f (related adjective melancholiczny)

1. (psychology) melancholy

• melancholia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• melancholia in Polish dictionaries at PWN