melancholy
意味
- 憂うつ,もの悲しさ
- もの悲しいふんい気
- (人・気持ちが)憂うつな,ふさぎ込んだ
- (事柄・話などが)もの悲しい気持ちにさせる,悲しげな
例文
You are truly an antidote for my melancholy.
本当に君のおかげで僕の憂うつは消し飛んでしまう。
He was overcome by a feeling of melancholy.
彼は憂うつな感情に打ちのめされた。
I don't want to read the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.
ぼくは涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱を読みたくない。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”) (from μέλας (mélas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (kholḗ, “bile”)), referring to the humour which ancient Hippocratic and later Galenic medicine associated with sadness and despondency. Compare the Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly. Doublet of melancholia.