THE FOUR HUMORS

The Elements     

The Body Fluid     

Personality Trait  

Definition

Fire and Water
(hot and wet)          

blood

sanguine
(SANGUIN-)         

courageous, hopeful and amorous

Air and Water

(cold and wet)    

phlegm

phlegmatic

cold, dull and even of temper

Fire and Earth

(hot and dry)   

bile

coleric

(CHOLE-)

angry, heated of temper

Earth and Air (dry and cold)         

melancholy, i.e., black bile

Melancholic

(MELAN- + CHOLE-)

gloomy and depressed