Etymology

melancholious

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Today it means: melancholy Full definition →

Middle English malencolious ← Middle French melancolieus
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The story

  1. Middle French · derived frommelancolieus
  2. Middle English · inherited frommalencolious
  3. English todaymelancholious

From Middle English malencolious, from Middle French melancolieus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.