Word Origin Summary

Μελαγχολία is attested in Ancient Greek. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• melancolia

  Portuguese · derived from

• melankolia

  Finnish · derived from

• milanculii

  Aromanian · derived from

• melankolinen

  Finnish · derived from

• melancholy

  English · derived from

• melancholia

  Polish · derived from

• メランコリー

  Japanese · borrowed from

• malanconia

  Old Spanish · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
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• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root