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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French tristesse.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɛs
Noun[edit]
tristesse (uncountable)
- (literary) sadness
- 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times[1]:
- “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”
Anagrams[edit]
Dutch[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
tristesse f (plural tristesses, diminutive tristessetje n)
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste + -esse, modeled after Latin tristitia.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
tristesse f (plural tristesses)
- sadness
- La tristesse durera
- the sadness will last
See also[edit]
References[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “tristesse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English literary terms
- Dutch terms derived from French
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French words suffixed with -esse
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms with usage examples
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