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malinconia.

melancholy

10 characters4 syllables approx.Italiano language

Meaning & usage

noun/ma.lin.koˈni.a/
  1. melancholy

    feminine
Where this word comes from

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

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