malanconia
Old Spanish
FWOTD – 23 July 2018
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ma.lãŋ.koˈni.a]
Noun
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.
- Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia.
- Idem, f. 79r.
- La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe 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.
- La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.
- c. 1200, Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v.
Descendants
- Spanish: melanconía (see melanconia)
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