trist

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See also: třišť and tříšť

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Apparently related to trust.

Noun

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trist (plural trists)

  1. (obsolete) Trust, faith.

Verb

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trist (third-person singular simple present trists, present participle tristing, simple past and past participle tristed)

  1. (obsolete) To trust, have faith in.

Etymology 2

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From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

Noun

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trist (plural trists)

  1. (obsolete) A set station in hunting.
  2. (obsolete, form of tryst) (secret meeting).
    • 1543, anonymous, Howard Papers, letter dated September 1543
      George Douglas [] caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

  1. Alternative form of triste (sad; sorrowful; gloomy).

Anagrams

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Breton

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Etymology

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From Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis. Compare Welsh trist, French triste.

Adjective

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trist

  1. sad

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan trist, from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Occitan triste.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist (feminine trista, masculine plural trists or tristos, feminine plural tristes)

  1. sad, unhappy
    Antonyms: feliç, alegre

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Cornish

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Etymology

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From Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

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IPA(key): /triːst/

Adjective

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trist

  1. sad, mournful

References

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  • [1] in Gerlyver Kernewek
  • Gerlyver Meur, 3rd Edition, 2020

Danish

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Etymology

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From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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trist (neuter trist, plural and definite singular attributive triste, comparative tristere, superlative (predicative) tristest, superlative (attributive) tristeste)

  1. sad
  2. (of a situation) sad

Inflection

Inflection of trist
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte common singular trist tristere tristest2
Indefinite neuter singular trist tristere tristest2
Plural triste tristere tristest2
Definite attributive1 triste tristere tristeste
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

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Friulian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

Adjective

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trist

  1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

Synonyms

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French triste. Ultimately from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist (strong nominative masculine singular trister, comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

  1. dull
  2. miserable
  3. sad

Declension

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Synonyms

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Further reading

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  • trist” in Duden online
  • trist” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Middle English

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Noun

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trist

  1. Alternative form of trest

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristere, indefinite superlative tristest, definite superlative tristeste)

  1. sad
  2. depressing
  3. (as an adverb) sadly

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristare, indefinite superlative tristast, definite superlative tristaste)

  1. sad
  2. depressing
  3. (as an adverb) sadly

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Occitan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

  1. sad

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Piedmontese

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist

  1. sad

Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

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Adjective

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trist m or n (feminine singular tristă, masculine plural triști, feminine and neuter plural triste)

  1. sad
    Antonyms: fericit, bucuros, vesel

Declension

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Romansch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

Adjective

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trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) sad

Antonyms

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  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) allegher
  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) legher
  • (Puter, Vallader) alleger

Serbo-Croatian

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Numeral

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trist (Cyrillic spelling трист)

  1. (colloquial) thirty
    Synonym: (Standard) trideset

Swedish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French triste, from Latin tristis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist (comparative tristare, superlative tristast)

  1. boring
  2. not fun, bad, a pity
    Det var trist att höra att din kanin dött
    I’m sorry to hear that your bunny died

Declension

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Inflection of trist
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular trist tristare tristast
Neuter singular trist tristare tristast
Plural trista tristare tristast
Masculine plural3 triste tristare tristast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 triste tristare tristaste
All trista tristare tristaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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Welsh

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Etymology

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From Middle Welsh trist, from Old Welsh trist, from Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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trist (feminine singular trist, plural tristion, equative tristed, comparative tristach, superlative tristaf)

  1. sad

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
trist drist nhrist thrist
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trist”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies