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Old Spanish
Etymology
From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”).
Pronunciation
Noun
malanconia f (usually uncountable)
- melancholy, black bile
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v.
Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia.- It is also good for those illnesses that arise from black bile.
- Idem, f. 79r.
La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien.- The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.
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