melancholy英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. countable,historical,uncountable

— Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, […] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature. countable,uncountable

— My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.

形容词 adj.

Affected with great sadness or depression. literary

— Melancholy people don't talk much.
Suggestive of wistfulness or subdued emotion.

— Twice a day she took them out to feed in the marshy places, let them waddle and gobble for an hour or two, and then drove them back and shut them up in a small dark shed to digest their meal, whence they gave forth occasionally a melancholy quack.

词形变化

melancholies plural melancholly alternative,obsolete melancholie alternative,obsolete melancholious alternative,obsolete more melancholy comparative most melancholy superlative melancholly alternative,obsolete melancholie alternative,obsolete melancholious alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词

melancholily melancholiness melancholist melancholize melancholy thistle solemncholy unmelancholy

词源

词源 1

From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Compare the Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly. Doublet of melancholia.

词源 2

From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Compare the Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly. Doublet of melancholia.