trist

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See also: tříšť

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Apparently related to trust.

Noun

trist (plural trists)

  1. (obsolete) Trust, faith.

Verb

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

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

Noun

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

French triste (“sad”).

Adjective

trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

  1. (obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)

Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

Compare Welsh trist, French triste. Ultimately from Latin trīstis.

Adjective

trist

  1. sad

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:etymology at line 147: Old Occitan (pro) is not set as an ancestor of Catalan (ca) in Module:languages/data/2. The ancestor of Catalan is Old Catalan (roa-oca)., from Vulgar Latin *tristus (compare Italian and Old Spanish tristo, Sardinian tristu, Romanian trist), variant of Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. sad, unhappy

Antonyms

Derived terms

Further reading

Danish

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

  1. sad
  2. (of a situation) sad

References

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin trīstis, possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *tristus. Compare Italian tristo.

Adjective

trist

  1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

Synonyms

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French triste.

Pronunciation

Adjective

trist (comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

  1. dull
  2. miserable
  3. sad

Declension

Template:de-decl-adj

Synonyms

Further reading

  • “trist” in Duden online

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

References

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *tristus. [from the 12th century]

Adjective

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

  1. sad

Derived terms

Further reading

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

Adjective

trist

  1. sad

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin trīstis, possibly through a Vulgar Latin variant *tristus (compare Italian tristo, Catalan trist, Sardinian tristu, Old Spanish tristo). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. sad

Declension

Declension of trist
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite trist tristă triști triste
definite tristul trista triștii tristele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite trist triste triști triste
definite tristului tristei triștilor tristilor

Antonyms

Related terms

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

Adjective

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

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) sad

Antonyms

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

Serbo-Croatian

Numeral

trist (Cyrillic spelling трист)

  1. (colloquial) thirty

Synonyms

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

trist (comparative tristare, superlative tristast)

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

Declension

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cy-N" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /triːst/
  • Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "cy-S" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /trɪst/

Adjective

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

  1. sad

Mutation

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.
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