trist

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪst/

Apparently related to trust.

trist (plural trists)

1. (obsolete) Trust, faith.

trist (third-person singular simple present trists, present participle tristing, simple past and past participle tristed)

1. (obsolete) To trust, have faith in.

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

trist (plural trists)

1. (obsolete) A set station in hunting.
   • 1485 July 31, Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XXI”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, [London]: […] [by William Caxton], OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: Published by David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034, page 213:

     :

     So at that time there was a lady dwelt in that forest, and she was a great huntress, and daily she used to hunt, and ever she bare her bow with her; and no men went never with her, but always women, and they were shooters, and could well kill a deer, both at the stalk and at the trest; […].

     • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:

     So at that tyme there was a lady dwellid in that forest / and she was a grete huntresse / & dayly she vsed to hunte / and euer she bare her bowe with her / and no men wente neuer with her / but alwayes wymmen / and they were shoters / and coude wel kylle a dere bothe at the stalke & at the trest

2. (obsolete, form of tryst) (secret meeting).
   • Letter dated September 1543

     George Douglas caused a trist to be set between him and the cardinal and four lords; at the which trist he and the cardinal agreed finally.

French triste (“sad”).

trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

1. (obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy

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• trits

Compare Welsh trist, French triste. Ultimately from Latin trīstis.

trist

1. sad

• tristidigezh

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *tristus (compare Italian and Old Spanish tristo, Sardinian tristu, Romanian trist), variant of Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɾist/

trist (feminine trista, masculine plural trists or tristos, feminine plural tristes)

1. sad, unhappy

• feliç, alegre

• tristesa
• tristament
• entristir

• “trist” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trist” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “trist” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trist” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter trist, plural and definite singular attributive triste, comparative tristere, superlative (predicative) tristest, superlative (attributive) tristeste)

1. sad
2. (of a situation) sad

• “trist” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin trīstis, possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *tristus. Compare Italian tristo.

trist

1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

• cjâtif
• malcreât
• necuitôs

Borrowed from French triste.

trist (comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

1. dull
2. miserable
3. sad

• trostlos, öde

• trist in Duden online

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristere, indefinite superlative tristest, definite superlative tristeste)

1. sad
2. depressing
3. (as an adverb) sadly

• tristhet

• “trist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

trist (neuter singular trist, definite singular and plural triste, comparative tristare, indefinite superlative tristast, definite superlative tristaste)

1. sad
2. depressing
3. (as an adverb) sadly

• “trist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *tristus. [from the 12th century]

trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

1. sad

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 320.

• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 998.

From Latin trīstis, possibly through a Vulgar Latin variant *tristus (compare Italian tristo, Catalan trist, Sardinian tristu, Old Spanish tristo). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

• IPA^(key): [trist]

trist m or n (feminine singular tristă, masculine plural triști, feminine and neuter plural triste)

1. sad

• fericit, bucuros, vesel

• tristețe

• (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) trest

From Latin trīstis.

trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) sad

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan) allegher
• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) legher
• (Puter, Vallader) alleger

trist (Cyrillic spelling трист)

1. (colloquial) thirty

• trideset (Standard)

• audio

  (file)

trist

1. boring
2. not funny, bad, a pity,...

   Det var trist att höra att din kanin dött

   I’m sorry to hear that your bunny died

Borrowed from Latin trīstis.

• (cy-N) IPA^(key): /triːst/
• (cy-S) IPA^(key): /trɪst/

trist (feminine singular trist, plural trist, equative tristed, comparative tristach, superlative tristaf)

1. sad