melancholicus

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

melancholicus (feminine melancholica, neuter melancholicum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative melancholicus melancholica melancholicum melancholicī melancholicae melancholica
Genitive melancholicī melancholicae melancholicī melancholicōrum melancholicārum melancholicōrum
Dative melancholicō melancholicō melancholicīs
Accusative melancholicum melancholicam melancholicum melancholicōs melancholicās melancholica
Ablative melancholicō melancholicā melancholicō melancholicīs
Vocative melancholice melancholica melancholicum melancholicī melancholicae melancholica

Descendants

Descendants

References

  • “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • melancholicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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