malanconia

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Old Spanish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, blackness of the bile).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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malanconia f (usually uncountable)

  1. 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.

Descendants

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  • Spanish: melanconía (see melanconia)