"choler" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: cholers [plural]
enPR: kǒ'lər Rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), from Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”). Doublet of cholera. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*ǵʰelh₃-}}, {{inh|en|enm|coler|id=choler|t=yellow bile}} Middle English coler (“yellow bile”), {{der|en|fro|colere||bile, anger}} Old French colere (“bile, anger”), {{uder|en|la|cholera||bilious disease}} Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), {{uder|en|grc|χολή||bile}} Ancient Greek χολή (kholḗ, “bile”), {{doublet|en|cholera}} Doublet of cholera Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} choler (usually uncountable, plural cholers)
  1. Anger or irritability. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (anger): wrok (Dutch), kiukku (Finnish), Ärger [masculine] (German), Gereiztheit [feminine] (German), lionn rua [masculine] (Irish), cólera [feminine] (Portuguese), furie [feminine] (Romanian), mânie [feminine] (Romanian), ilska (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-choler-en-noun-JVYFCb1M Categories (other): Anger Disambiguation of Anger: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'anger': 81 19
  2. (historical, medicine) Synonym of yellow bile Tags: historical, uncountable, usually Synonyms: yellow bile [synonym, synonym-of] Translations (one of the four humours): koleerisuus (Finnish), lionn rua [masculine] (Irish), cólera [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-choler-en-noun-5eb~hj0A Categories (other): Medicine, English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Dutch translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 20 80 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 9 91 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Dutch translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 15 85 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 22 78 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 24 76 Topics: medicine, sciences Disambiguation of 'one of the four humours': 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: cholera, choleric

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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