malanconia
Old Spanish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
malanconia f (usually uncountable)
- melancholy, black bile
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v.
- Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia.
- It is also good for those illnesses that arise from black bile.
- Idem, f. 79r.
- 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. 7v.
Descendants edit
- Spanish: melanconía (see melanconia)