melancolie

See also: mélancolie

French

Noun

melancolie f (plural melancolies)

1. Obsolete form of mélancolie.

Further reading

• “melancolie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Italian

Noun

melancolie f

1. plural of melancolia

Anagrams

• melencolia

Middle English

Noun

melancolie

1. Alternative form of malencolie

Adjective

melancolie

1. Alternative form of malencolie

Old French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía).

Noun

melancolie oblique singular, f (oblique plural melancolies, nominative singular melancolie, nominative plural melancolies)

1. melancholy (sadness or depression)
2. (medicine) melancholy; black bile

Descendants

• French: mélancolie
• → Middle English: malencolie, malencolye, malancolie, malancolye, malyncoly, malencoly, malencoli, melancolye, melancolie
  • English: melancholy (remodelled after Latin)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mélancolie, ultimately from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía); the older variant melanholie was borrowed from Greek μελαγχολία (melancholía).

Pronunciation

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Noun

melancolie f (plural melancolii)

1. melancholy (sadness or depression)

   Synonym: tristețe

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	melancolie	melancolia		melancolii	melancoliile
genitive-dative	melancolii	melancoliei		melancolii	melancoliilor
vocative	melancolie, melancolio			melancoliilor