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10 Language-to-English Dictionariesmelancolía
Pronunciation / Transliteration: meh-lan-koh-lee-ah
"La música evocaba una profunda melancolía."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
A deep, pensive, and often long-lasting state of sadness or sorrow, typically with no obvious cause.
"A quiet melancholy settled over the room as the sun began to set."
- 1
Expressing or affected by a deep, pensive sadness.
"He played a melancholy tune on the old piano."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the Middle English 'melancolie', stemming from Old French and Late Latin, ultimately from the Greek 'melankholia', meaning 'black bile'. In ancient medical theory, an excess of black bile was believed to cause profound sadness and depression, a concept that evolved over centuries into the modern poetic and psychological understanding of deep, pensive sorrow.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Melancholy" is said worldwide
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mélancolie
Transliteration: may-lahn-ko-lee
"Une douce mélancolie envahit son esprit."
Melancholie
Transliteration: meh-lan-kho-lee
"Er fühlte eine tiefe Melancholie."
malinconia
Transliteration: mah-lin-koh-nee-ah
"Un senso di malinconia lo assali."
melancolía
Transliteration: meh-lan-koh-lee-ah
"La música evocaba una profunda melancolía."
melancolia
Transliteration: meh-lan-koh-lee-ah
"Ela olhou para o mar com melancolia."
उदासी
Transliteration: udasi
"उसके चेहरे पर एक गहरी उदासी छाई थी।"
忧郁
Transliteration: yōuyù
"他眼里流露出一种淡淡的忧郁。"
우울
Transliteration: u-ul
"그의 마음속에 깊은 우울이 찾아왔다."
憂鬱
Transliteration: yuu-utsu
"彼女の表情には微かな憂鬱があった。"
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