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German
Etymology
From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, Melancholie + -isch.
Pronunciation
Adjective
melancholisch (strong nominative masculine singular melancholischer, comparative melancholischer, superlative am melancholischsten)
- melancholic
- 1923, Sigmund Freud, Eine Teufelsneurose im siebzehnten Jahrhundert, in: Imago: Zeitschrift für Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf die Geisteswissenschaften, vol. 9, booklet 1, Internationaler Psychoanalytischer Verlag, page 9:
Er war schwermütig geworden, konnte nicht, oder nicht recht arbeiten und hatte Sorge um die Erhaltung seiner Existenz, also melancholische Depression mit Arbeitshemmung und (berechtigter) Lebenssorge.- He had become melancholic, could not or not well work and had worries about the sustainment of his existence, thus a melancholic depression with work block and (justified) worries about life.
Declension
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