melancholicus
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /me.lanˈkʰo.li.kus/, [mɛɫ̪äŋˈkʰɔlʲɪkʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /me.lanˈko.li.kus/, [meläŋˈkɔːlikus]
Adjective
melancholicus (feminine melancholica, neuter melancholicum); first/second-declension adjective
- having black bile, atrabilious, melancholy
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | melancholicus | melancholica | melancholicum | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholica | |
| Genitive | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholicī | melancholicōrum | melancholicārum | melancholicōrum | |
| Dative | melancholicō | melancholicō | melancholicīs | ||||
| Accusative | melancholicum | melancholicam | melancholicum | melancholicōs | melancholicās | melancholica | |
| Ablative | melancholicō | melancholicā | melancholicō | melancholicīs | |||
| Vocative | melancholice | melancholica | melancholicum | melancholicī | melancholicae | melancholica | |
Descendants
- → Catalan: melancòlic (learned)
- → English: melancholic
References
- “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “melancholicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- melancholicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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