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語源

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”). Doublet of melancholy.

発音

• 韻: -əʊliə

名詞

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

派生語

• melancholiac

関連する語

• melancholy
• melancholic