melancholia

== 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”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Doublet of melancholy. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -əʊliə === 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 ==== Derived terms ==== melancholiac ==== Related terms ==== melancholy melancholic ==== Translations ==== == Polish == === Alternative forms === mankalija, mankolia (Kuyavia) mankolija (Far Masovian) mankoliá (Żywiec) menkolijá (“madness”) (Podegrodzie) mankolijá (Far Masovian, Kolno, Western Lublin, Eastern Lublin, Lublin Voivodeship) === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɛ.lanˈxɔ.lja/ Rhymes: -ɔlja Syllabification: me‧lan‧cho‧lia === Noun === melancholia f (related adjective melancholiczny) (psychology) melancholy ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “melancholia”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “melancholia”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)