megrim

noun /ˈmiːɡɹɪm/

1. A headache; a migraine.

   archaic

2. A fancy, a whim, a caprice.

   archaic

3. See megrims (“depression; any of various diseases of animals”).

   For quotations using this term, see Citations:megrim.

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Middle French migraigne, semi-learned borrowing from Late Latin hēmicrānia (“pain in one half of the head”), from Ancient Greek ἡμικρᾱνίᾰ (hēmikrāníă), from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-, half”) + κρανίον (kraníon, “skull”) (whence also English cranium). Doublet of migraine and hemicrania.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry megrim (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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