tryst

WOTD - 29 July 2006    

English

Etymology

From Middle English tryst, trist, a variant of trust, trost, from Old Norse traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustan (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). More at trust.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /trɪst/

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

tryst (plural trysts)

1. A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
   • 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, №91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)

     If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?

2. (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.

Translations

prearranged meeting, now especially between lovers

Arabic: موعد (ar) (máw3id) m., لقاء الحب (ar) (liqaa' al-Hubb) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 幽會 (zh), 幽会 (zh) (yōuhuì) Finnish: treffit (fi), tärskyt (fi) French: rendez-vous (fr) m., rendez-vous d'amour (fr) m.

German: Stelldichein (de) n. Greek: ραντεβού (el) (rantevoú) n., συνάντηση (el) (synántisi) f. Hungarian: találka (hu), légyott (hu), randevú (hu) Japanese: 逢い引き (ja) (あいびき, aibiki), デート (ja) (dēto) Russian: свидание (ru) (svidánije) n., встреча (ru) (vstréča) f., любовное свидание (ru) (ljubóvnoje svidánije) n.

(obsolete) a mutual agreement, a covenant

Finnish: välipuhe (fi) Russian: соглашение (ru) (soglašénije) m.

Spanish: fresco (es) f.

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Kurdish: jivan (ku) f.

Verb

tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted)

1. (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
2. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
3. (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.

Translations

to agree to meet at a place

Finnish: tehdä (fi) tärskyt (fi) pl., tehdä treffit (fi) pl. Japanese: 合う約束をする (ja) (au yakusoku wo suru)

Russian: назначить встречу

to arrange or appoint

Finnish: sopia (fi)

Japanese: 合う約束をする (ja) (au yakusoku wo suru)

to meet at an agreed place and time

Finnish: treffata (fi) Japanese: 逢い引きする (ja) (aibiki suru)

Russian: прийти на встречу

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Kurdish: (intransitive:) jivîn (ku), çûn / hatin jivanê, jivan kirin; (transitive:) jivandin (ku)