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): /kɔlˈɛːrik/, /ˈkɔlɛrik/, /ˈkɔl(ə)rik/

Adjective

colerik

1. Having an extreme and dangerous quantity of yellow bile.
2. Due to the influence or presence of yellow bile.
3. Having one's mood changed by yellow bile; easily angered.
   • 14th c., Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line 589,^[1]

     The REVE was a sclendre colerik man.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (rare) Made of or containing yellow bile or choler.
5. (rare) Under the influence of or governed by yellow bile.
6. (rare) Having a proclivity to promote black bile.

Descendants

• English: choleric

References

• “colerik, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-12.

See also

• humour
• (qualities of the four humours) fleumatik,‎ colerik,‎ malencolik,‎ sanguine ^[edit]