malinconia

Italian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”) after the humorism theory.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.lin.koˈni.a/[1]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ia
  • Hyphenation: ma‧lin‧co‧nì‧a

Noun

malinconia f (plural malinconie)

  1. melancholy

References

  1. ^ malinconia in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2025

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maliŋkuˈnia/

Noun

malinconia f

  1. melancholy
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