Noun: malanconia
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia. (It is also good for those illnesses that arise from black bile.) [c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v:]
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La ſegunda es q̃ ſi beuiere om̃e della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ⁊ bien. (The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.) [c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 79r.:]
Nouns inflected like malanconia
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”). See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
μελαγχολία'.
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