Where does melancholious come from?

It is traced to Middle English.

melancholious

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"however flat and melancholious it [marriage] be"
"O, a’ ye Bards on bonie Doon! / An’ vvha on Ayr your chanters tune! / Come, join the melancholious croon / O’ Robin’s reed! / His heart vvill never get aboon! / His Mailie’s dead!"

From Middle English malencolious, from Middle French melancolieus.

more melancholious (comparative) most melancholious (superlative)

melancholiously

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