tristis

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Unknown.[1][2][3] Variously compared to Proto-West Germanic *þrīstī (“bold, daring”),[4] Ancient Greek δριμύς (drimús, “sharp; bitter”)[1] and Old Church Slavonic дрѧхлъ (dręxlŭ, “sad”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trīstis (neuter trīste, comparative trīstior, superlative trīstissimus, adverb trīste); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. sad, unhappy, melancholy, morose
    Synonyms: maestus, infēlīx, miser, aeger
    Antonyms: laetus, alacer, vīvus, fēlīx
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 5.315–316:
      excidit officium trīstī mihi. nūlla tuēbar
      rūra, nec in pretiō fertilis hortus erat.
      In sadness my duty was forgotten. I was guarding not
      the fields, neither was a fertile garden in value.
  2. sorrowful, mournful
  3. disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)
  4. foul, offensive (of smell)

Declension

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Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative trīstis trīste trīstēs trīstia
genitive trīstis trīstium
dative trīstī trīstibus
accusative trīstem trīste trīstēs
trīstīs 		trīstia
ablative trīstī trīstibus
vocative trīstis trīste trīstēs trīstia

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Reflexes of the late variant trīstus:

Unsorted borrowings:

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “tristis”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 706
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trīstis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 630
  3. ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “trīstis, -e”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots‎[1] (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 703
  4. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1092”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1092

Further reading

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  • “tristis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “tristis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tristis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • tristis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste
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