malanconia

Old Spanish

FWOTD – 23 July 2018

Alternative forms

• melanconia

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /malankoˈnia/

Noun

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

• Spanish: melanconía (see melanconia)