tristis
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tréystis (note that this root is only found in Latin and Germanic languages).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈtriːs.tis/, [ˈt̪riːs̠t̪ɪs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈtris.tis/, [ˈt̪rist̪is]
Adjective
trīstis (neuter trīste, comparative trīstior, superlative trīstissimus, adverb trīste); third-declension two-termination adjective
- sad, unhappy, melancholy, morose
- sorrowful, mournful
- (of taste) disagreeable, harsh, bitter
- (of smell) foul, offensive
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | Masc./Fem. | Neuter | |
Nominative | trīstis | trīste | trīstēs | trīstia | |
Genitive | trīstis | trīstium | |||
Dative | trīstī | trīstibus | |||
Accusative | trīstem | trīste | trīstēs trīstīs |
trīstia | |
Ablative | trīstī | trīstibus | |||
Vocative | trīstis | trīste | trīstēs | trīstia |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Asturian: triste
- Catalan: trist
- → Dutch: triest
- → English: triste
- French: triste
- Friulian: trist
- → Danish: trist
- → German: trist
- Italian: triste (“sad”), tristo (“evil”)
- → Norwegian: trist
- Occitan: triste, tris
- → Old Irish: tríst
- Piedmontese: trist
- Portuguese: triste
- Romanian: trist
- Sicilian: tristi (“sad”), tristu (“evil”)
- Spanish: triste
- → Swedish: trist
- → Welsh: trist
- Venetian: tristo
References
- “tristis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tristis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tristis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- tristis 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
- (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste
Categories:
- Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 2-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives
- Latin third declension adjectives of two terminations
- Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook