Choler Definition
kŏlər, kōlər
noun
Anger or ill humor.
Webster's New World
Bile: in medieval times yellow bile was considered to be one of the four humors of the body and the source of anger and irritability.
Webster's New World
The quality and condition of being bilious.
American Heritage Medicine
Other Word Forms of Choler
Noun
Singular:
choler
Plural:
cholersOrigin of Choler
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Middle English colre from Old French from Latin cholera cholera, jaundice from Greek kholera from kholē bile ghel-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Old French colere (“bile, anger”), from Latin cholera (“bilious disease”), from Ancient Greek χολή (kholē, “bile”).
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