{"id":37734,"date":"2016-11-04T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=37734"},"modified":"2016-11-08T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T11:05:35","slug":"jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-choleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/11\/04\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-choleric\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . Choleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32935\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrey_aronson\" width=\"92\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2014\/12\/jeffrey_aronson.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 92px) 100vw, 92px\" \/><\/a>The third of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/09\/02\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-humours-and-humour\">Galen\u2019s four fluid humours of the body<\/a>, \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae, [yellow] bile, was associated, when in supposed excess, with a choleric temperament, \u201cdisposed to anger or easily angered; hot-tempered, fiery; bad-tempered, irascible; irritable, cantankerous\u201d (<em>OED<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>This couldn\u2019t be more different from the phlegmatic temperament, \u201cnot easily excited to feeling or action; stolidly calm, self-possessed, imperturbable; sluggish, apathetic, lacking enthusiasm\u201d. Yet each word comes from an IndoEuropean root associated with shining<!--more-->, phlegmatic from BHEL, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/10\/07\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-phlegmatic\">which I have previously discussed<\/a>, choleric from GHOL, the o-grade form of GHEL.<\/p>\n<p>Shining words that derive from GH\u2019L, the zero grade form, include glad, glance, glare, glass, glaze, glazier, gleam, glee, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glisten and glister, glitter, glitz, gloaming, gloss, glow, and glower. Gleet is a shiny penile discharge suggestive of gonorrhoea. Shiny things are slippery, giving glacier, glib, glide, and glissando. Shiny things are also smooth (Latin glaber), like the glabella, the space between the eyebrows.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37738\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37738\" style=\"width: 218px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37738 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/11\/aronson_choleric.png\" alt=\"aronson_choleric\" width=\"218\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/11\/aronson_choleric.png 238w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2016\/11\/aronson_choleric-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colonies of <em>Penicillium griseofulvum<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Greek \u03b3\u03bb\u03b1\u03c5\u03ba\u03cc\u03c2 meant gleaming and bluish-green or grey, giving glaucous and glaucoma (\u03b3\u03bb\u03b1\u03c5\u03ba\u03cc\u03bc\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2 = grey-eyed). Other shining colours include gold, through Teutonic derivatives such as the German gelb, and yellow, like a yolk. Shifting <em>l<\/em> to <em>r<\/em> gives you green. Shifting <em>g<\/em> to <em>h<\/em> gives you the Sanskrit hari, a yellow colour; Hare Krishna is the god whose energy is like that of the yellow sun (Greek\u00a0\u1f25\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2). In Latin, helvus was a dull kind of yellow; holera, the plural of holus, and the diminutive holuscula were vegetables, particularly green ones. Shifting <em>g<\/em> to <em>f<\/em> gives you the Latin fulvus, a tawny or sandy colour. The antifungal drug griseofulvin is derived from <em>Penicillium griseofulvum<\/em>, which forms grey\u2013yellow colonies (picture); it was first isolated and named by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC1264363\/pdf\/biochemj01028-0106.pdf\">Oxford, Raistrick, and Simonart<\/a> in 1938.<\/p>\n<p>In Greek, GHOL also gives \u03c7\u03bb\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2, yellow or light green, after which the gas chlorine is named, as are the green plant pigment chlorophyll and drugs that contain chlorine (chloral, chlorambucil, chloramphenicol, chlordiazepoxide, chloroform, chloroquine, chlorothiazide, chlortetracycline). In chloasma, which typically occurs during pregnancy, the skin is marked by yellowish-brown or black patches. Chlorosis was a disorder that was thought to be limited to young women soon after puberty and was characterised by a greenish pallor, weakness, amenorrhoea or irregular menstruation, and appetite disorders, similar in some ways to anorexia nervosa. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21563494\">disappeared<\/a> as a diagnosis at the start of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p>To gild is to cover with gold. Some coins, originally gold, have related names, including the Dutch guilder and (shifting <em>g<\/em> to <em>z<\/em>) the Polish zloty. More generally, geld is German for money. The old Persian word zarna also meant gold, and the related Syriac word zarnika, from which we get the name arsenic, meant orpiment, a yellow mineral, arsenic trisulphide, used as a pigment.<\/p>\n<p>GHOL also leads to words associated with bile\u2014gall and words such as cholagogue, cholecalciferol, cholecystokinin, choledochal, cholelithiasis, cholestasis, and cholesterol.<\/p>\n<p>Cholera (Greek \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1) was originally a disease characterised by vomiting and diarrhoea, supposedly discharging the body\u2019s humours, but perhaps by confusion with \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ac\u03b4\u03b5\u03c2, the bowels; \u03be\u03b7\u03c1\u1f74 \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ad\u03c1\u03b1, dry cholera, was a form of constipation. The term first appeared in English in the middle of the 14<sup>th<\/sup> century as the noun choleric, meaning someone with a predominance of bile and later an irascible person. Choler and cholera, meaning humoral bile, appeared in the late 14<sup>th<\/sup> century, as did the adjective choleric. In <em>The Canterbury Tales<\/em>, Chaucer described the Reeve as \u201ca sclendre coleryk man\u201d. Cholera as a diarrhoeal disease first appeared in English in the late 16<sup>th<\/sup> century, but it described a summer disease with severe diarrhoea, vomiting, and abdominal cramps, sometimes called bilious, British, English, European, or\u00a0summer cholera.\u00a0The disease caused by <em>Vibrio cholera<\/em> did not earn the name cholera until the 19<sup>th<\/sup> century, following pandemics in India and elsewhere. Enough to make you choleric.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jeffrey Aronson<\/strong> is a clinical pharmacologist, working in the Centre for Evidence Based Medicine in Oxford&#8217;s Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. He is also president emeritus of the British Pharmacological Society.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong>\u00a0None declared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third of Galen\u2019s four fluid humours of the body, \u03c7\u03bf\u03bb\u03ae, [yellow] bile, was associated, when in supposed excess, with a choleric temperament, \u201cdisposed to anger or easily angered; hot-tempered, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2016\/11\/04\/jeffrey-aronson-when-i-use-a-word-choleric\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5762],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jeff-aronsons-words"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Jeffrey Aronson: When I use a word . . . 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