melancholy

Etymology
From, from , from , from , +. Compare the 🇨🇬. The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes,. .

Noun

 * 1)  Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
 * , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
 * Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour,is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
 * 1) Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
 * 2) * 1936 Sept. 15,, letter to Beatrice Dance:
 * As to ... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
 * 1) * 1936 Sept. 15,, letter to Beatrice Dance:
 * As to ... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.
 * As to ... He is quite as nervously broken down as I am but it manifests itself in different ways. His inclination is towards megalomania and mine towards melancholy.

Translations

 * Arabic: سوداء
 * Egyptian Arabic: ماليخوليا
 * Aromanian: milanculii
 * Azerbaijani: melanxoliya
 * Basque: malenkonia
 * Belarusian: меланхолія
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, vemod
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: melankolio
 * Estonian: melanhoolia
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, מְלַנְכּוֹלְיָה
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: melancholia
 * Lithuanian: melancholija
 * Manchu: ᠠᡴᠠᠴᡠᠨ
 * Maori: kainatu, rāwakiwaki
 * Mongolian: ухаан балартан
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: melankoli, tungsinn, svartsyn, vemod
 * Nynorsk: tunglynde
 * Persian:, مالنخولیا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dòlasachd, mulad, èislean, cianalas, tùirse, truime, dubhachas
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: меланхолија, меланколија
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Slovak: melanchólia
 * Slovene: melanholija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tajik: молихулиё
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ottoman Turkish: سودا
 * Ukrainian: меланхолія
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:

Adjective

 * 1)  Affected with great sadness or depression.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:sad
 * See also Thesaurus:sad