köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese melanconia, borrowed from Late Latin melancholia, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía, “blackness of the bile”).
köken: Borrowed from French mélancolie, ultimately from Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melankholía); the older variant melanholie was borrowed from Greek μελαγχολία (melancholía).
köken: From a bad lecture of an 18th century author by a 19th century lexicographer; later incorporated into several 19th and 20th century dictionaries, and subsequently acquiring some minor literary use.