tristesse
See also: Tristesse
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French tristesse.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun
tristesse (uncountable)
- (literary) sadness
- 1992, Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 52:
- The robot let out a long heartfelt sigh of impassioned tristesse and sank reluctantly away from the ceiling.
- 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times[1]:
- “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”
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Dutch
Etymology
Noun
tristesse f (plural tristesses, diminutive tristessetje n)
French
Etymology
First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste + -esse, modeled after Latin trīstitia.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
tristesse f (plural tristesses)
- sadness
- la tristesse durera ― the sadness will last
- 1932, Paul Éluard, “À Peine Défigurée”, in La Vie immédiate, Paris: Gallimard:
- Adieu tristesse / Bonjour tristesse / Tu es inscrite dans les lignes du plafond / Tu es inscrite dans les yeux que j’aime / Tu n’es pas tout à fait la misère / Car les lèvres les plus pauvres te dénoncent / Par un sourire
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Related terms
Further reading
- “tristesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
References
- ^ Etymology and history of “tristesse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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