colerik

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === colerike, coleryke, colleryk, colorik, colloryke, colerique, colryk, colrik === Etymology === From Old French colerique, from Latin cholericus; equivalent to coler (“choler”) +‎ -ik. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔl(ə)ˈriːk/, /ˈkɔl(ə)rik/ === Adjective === colerik Having an extreme and dangerous quantity of yellow bile. Due to the influence or presence of yellow bile. Having one's mood changed by yellow bile; easily angered. 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line 589,[1] (rare) Made of or containing yellow bile or choler. (rare) Under the influence of or governed by yellow bile. (rare) Having a proclivity to promote black bile. ==== Coordinate terms ==== medicinal humor adjectives: humours: colerik · fleumatik · malencolik · sanguine [edit] ==== Descendants ==== English: choleric ==== References ==== “colerik, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 December 2018.