What color is melancholy, according to the Greek translation of the word?

Black and White are not colors. So the color of melancholy is blue or purple or violet for that matter. You asked, one time what color was the light from the sun. The correct answer is yellow, but of course the answer was "white". Black & White are "shades" not colors.

"AT THE TIME People THOUGHT that the couse of Melancholy was the presence of too much "BLACK Bile"...

I can understand what you're saying and agree with you to an extent. I guessed correctly because black is "the absence of light," thus darkness. Depression feels like darkness. It often said, though, that a person has the "blues." Confusing question!

I AGREE !!!!!!!!

I was looking for "blue" ...but black was the next best thing.

Without getting too technical, where color is concerned it depends on if the color is using light or reflected light. Using light (like a computer or television screens, referred to as the "Additive Color Model", using RGB {red, green and blue}), white is the presence of ALL colors, while black is the absence of all colors, or light. Using reflected light (the printed page, for example, which uses the "Subtractive Color Model" with pigment of CMYK {cyan, magenta, yellow and black}), white is the absence of color, and black is all of the colors. This is widely known by those who work in print and online media.

filmnut, without getting too technical, where color is concerned it depends on if the color is using light or reflected light. Using light (like a computer or television screens, referred to as the "Additive Color Model", using RGB {red, green and blue}), white is the presence of ALL colors, while black is the absence of all colors, or light. Using reflected light (the printed page, for example, which uses the "Subtractive Color Model" with pigment of CMYK {cyan, magenta, yellow and black}), white is the absence of color, and black is all of the colors. This is widely known by those who work in print and online media.

If blue had been an option, I would've gone there. I guess black is the new blue.

filmnut, My late father was a painter and decorator and he always said black & white were not colours but shades 🤟

Adø Lunzi, even when they are wrong?

Fred Keogh, i did too.

The colour is Blue or Purple. So the right answer was not än option.

Black of course ! I associate MDD with the black dog .

filmnut, don't be daft. If you are talking about light you are correct black is no light . White is a mixture of many wavelengths. If you are talking about pigments and dyeing then black and white are colours that need to be sourced the same as indigo red yellow green etc. So car colours, fashion, pencil paint pastel sets, botanical and zoological descriptions all use the terms black and white as descriptors and your 'absence of light' just doesn't cut it in those contexts. Furthermore the Newtonian and post Newtonian understanding of the composition of light is hardly relevant to the Greek and Roman usage referred to in the question. Black bile to you sir!

Me)anin melanoma a no brainer if you look at the words

filmnut, dont be daft. When you talk about light, spectrum, or mixing light, black and white are not colours. In every other context they are: car colours , fashion, medical descriptions, medieval references before the spectrum was described by Newton or anyone else , poetry, paintshops, Derwent pencil sets, Paint pigments.

Blue would have made a more interesting option.

Got it

I was expecting purple or blue to appear.