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ˈkɒlə/
n.
- (in medieval science and medicine) one of the four bodily humours, identified with bile, believed to be associated with a peevish or irascible temperament.
- archaic anger or irascibility.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. colere, from L. cholera ‘diarrhoea’ (from Gk kholera), which in late L. acquired the senses ‘bile or anger’, from Gk kholē ‘bile’.
