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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.

melancholia (countable and uncountable, plural melancholias)

  1. Deep sadness or gloom; melancholy
    Synonyms: gloom, melancholy, sadness; see also Thesaurus:sadness
  2. (pathology) depression, characterised by irrational fears, guilt and apathy

Translations

Learned borrowing from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).

melancholia f (related adjective melancholiczny)

  1. (psychology) melancholy

Declension of melancholia