triste

See also: Triste, triște, and třísté

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪst/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: trist, tryst
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle English trist, triste (-e form is less common), borrowed from Old French trist, triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”). Re-borrowed late 18c. (as “dull, uninteresting”) as a French word in English and often spelled triste.

Adjective

triste (comparative more triste, superlative most triste)

1. (rare) Sad; sorrowful; gloomy.
   • 1877, R. Elton Smilie, chapter XXIX, in The Manatitlans; or A Record of Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A., Buenos Ayres: Calla Derécho, Imprenta De Razon, pages 399–400:

     He said, he wanted them to take us to Heraclea that we might be educated so that we would be always good, and could be present with him and mamma although absent in body, which would keep them from feeling sad and lonely. But we could see that mamma and he were very, very triste. This made us sorry. So he talked to us of all you had written of the happiness of the people here, because they were truly good and pure in their love toward each other, without selfish concealments; then we were glad and wanted to be with you.

Alternative forms

• trist

Derived terms

• tristeness, tristness
• tristeful, tristful

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

triste (plural tristes)

1. (UK, dialect) (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) A cattle fair.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “triste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Further reading

• “triste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “triste”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• triste at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Sitter, Strite, Tetris, sitter, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest, triset

Danish

Adjective

triste

1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French triste, borrowed from Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis. Old French originally had trist, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁist/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: tristes
• Hyphenation: triste
• Rhymes: -ist

Adjective

triste (plural tristes)

1. sad

   Synonyms: chagriné, déçu, désappointé, désenchanté, malheureux

   Antonyms: béat, bienheureux, comblé, content, enchanté, épanoui, gai, heureux, joyeux, ravi, réjoui, satisfait

Derived terms

• attrister
• avoir l'alcool triste
• triste sire
• tristement
• tristesse

 

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: tris
• → Danish: trist
• → Dutch: triest
• → English: triste
• → Norwegian Bokmål: trist
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: trist
• → Swedish: trist
• → German: trist

See also

• lamentable
• maussade
• misérable
• morne

 

Further reading

• “triste”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• titres

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, from Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes)

1. sad, unhappy

Antonyms

• (sad, unhappy): alegre

Related terms

• tristeza
• tristura

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

triste

1. inflection of trist:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Interlingua

Adjective

triste (comparative plus triste, superlative le plus triste)

1. sad

Italian

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis. Compare tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from the same source.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtri.ste/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -iste
• Hyphenation: trì‧ste

Adjective

triste (plural tristi, superlative tristissimo)

1. sad, unhappy, bleak

   Antonym: allegro

Derived terms

• rattristare
• tristemente
• tristezza

 

Related terms

• tristizia
• tristo

 

Further reading

• triste in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

trīste (not comparable)

1. sadly

Etymology 2

Adjective

trīste

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of trīstis

References

• “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “triste”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• triste in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste
    

Norman

Etymology

From Old French triste, from Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Adjective

triste m or f

1. (Jersey) sad

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

triste

1. definite singular of trist
2. plural of trist

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

triste

1. definite singular of trist
2. plural of trist

Old French

Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular triste)

1. sad

Related terms

• tristor

Descendants

• English: triste
• French: triste
• Norman: triste

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese triste, from Latin trīstis (perhaps borrowed), from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾis.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾis.t͡ʃi/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾis.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.t(ɨ)/

• (Northeast Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.ti/
• Hyphenation: tris‧te

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes, comparable, comparative mais triste, superlative o mais triste or tristíssimo, diminutive tristinho, augmentative tristão)

1. (of a person) sad; unhappy; down

   Eles estavam tristes porque o inverno começou. ― They were sad because winter had begun.

   Synonym: infeliz

2. (of something) sad (causing sadness)

   Era um filme bastante triste. ― It was quite a sad film.

3. (of a person) disappointed

   Estou muito triste com você. ― I’m really disappointed with you.

   Synonyms: decepcionado, desapontado

4. (of a situation) lamentable; pitiful

   A situação das escolas é triste. ― The situation of the schools is lamentable.

   Synonyms: vergonhoso, lamentável

Derived terms

• tristemente
• tristonho

 

Related terms

• tristeza

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtris.te]

Adjective

triste f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of trist

Spanish

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis. Compare the Old Spanish form tristo, inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiste/ [ˈt̪ɾis.t̪e]

• Audio (Colombia)

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• Rhymes: -iste
• Syllabification: tris‧te

Adjective

triste (plural tristes, superlative tristísimo)

1. sad, saddened, blue, gloomy, unhappy, joyless, triste
2. dismal, dreary, glum, miserable, melancholy
3. sorrowful, mournful
4. forlorn
5. upsetting, saddening
6. dull

Antonyms

• alegre

Derived terms

• entristecer
• tristemente
• tristeza f
• tristón, tristona

 

Further reading

• “triste”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Adjective

triste

1. absolute definite natural masculine singular of trist.

Anagrams

• istret, sitter