triste

See also: Triste

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪst/

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• Homophones: trist, tryst
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle English triste, borrowed from Old French triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”).

Adjective

triste

1. (rare) sad.

Etymology 2

Noun

triste (plural tristes)

1. (UK, dialect) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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

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Danish

Adjective

triste

1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

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French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁist/

• Audio (France, Paris)

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• Homophone: tristes
• Hyphenation: triste

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
• tristement
• tristesse

 

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

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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

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German

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

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Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtris.te/, [ˈt̪r̺is̪t̪e]
• Hyphenation: trì‧ste

Adjective

1. sad, unhappy, bleak

   Antonym: allegro

Derived terms

• tristemente
• tristezza

 

Related terms

• tristizia
• tristo

 

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Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

trīste (not comparable)

1. sadly

Etymology 2

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) 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
    

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Norman

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste m or f

1. (Jersey) sad

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Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of trist
2. plural of trist

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of trist
2. plural of trist

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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

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.tɨ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾis.tʃi/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.tʃi/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.ti/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtɾis.te/
• Hyphenation: tris‧te

Adjective

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

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtris.te]

Adjective

triste f pl or n pl

1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of trist

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis. Compare also the Old Spanish form tristo, from a variant Vulgar Latin root.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɾiste/ [ˈt̪ɾis.t̪e]

Adjective

triste m or f (masculine and feminine plural tristes) (superlative tristísimo)

1. sad
2. joyless

Antonyms

• alegre

Derived terms

• entristecer
• tristemente
• tristeza f
• tristón, tristona

 

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Swedish

Adjective

triste

1. (deprecated template usage) definite natural masculine singular of trist

Anagrams

• istret, sitter