Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• melanconia

Noun

malanconia f (usually uncountable)

1. melancholy, black bile
   • c. 1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 7v.

     Et otroſſi es bona pora aquellas enfermedades que uienen por malanconia.

     It is also good for those illnesses that arise from black bile.

   • Idem, f. 79r.

     La ſegunda es q́ ſi beuiere oḿe della peſo duna dragma purga melanconia temprada miente ¬ bien.

     The second is that if one were to drink of it the weight of one drachma, it purges black bile soon and well.

Descendants

• Spanish: melanconía (see melanconia)