tristesse
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Contents
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowing from French tristesse.
Noun[edit]
tristesse (uncountable)
- (literary) sadness
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2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, New York Times:
- “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste + -esse, modelled after Latin tristitia.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
tristesse f (plural tristesses)
- sadness
- La tristesse durera
- the sadness will last
- La tristesse durera
See also[edit]
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- “tristesse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English borrowed terms
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English literary terms
- French terms derived from Old French
- French words suffixed with -esse
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French feminine nouns
- French countable nouns
- fr:Emotions
