melancholia
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English
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊliə
Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)
- Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
- Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness; see also Thesaurus:sadness
- (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy
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Polish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).
Pronunciation
Noun
melancholia f (related adjective melancholiczny)
Declension
Declension of melancholia
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | melancholia | melancholie |
| genitive | melancholii | melancholii/melancholij (archaic) |
| dative | melancholii | melancholiom |
| accusative | melancholię | melancholie |
| instrumental | melancholią | melancholiami |
| locative | melancholii | melancholiach |
| vocative | melancholio | melancholie |
Derived terms
adjectives
- (dialectal) mankolijny
nouns
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adverbs
Further reading
- melancholia in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- melancholia in Polish dictionaries at PWN