triste

See also: Triste

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɪst/
  • (file)
  • 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. (Britain, dialectal) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Further reading

  • triste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • triste in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • triste at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams


Danish

Adjective

triste

  1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʁist/
  • (file)
  • Homophone: tristes
  • Hyphenation: triste

Adjective

triste (plural tristes)

  1. sad

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

Anagrams


Galician

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes)

  1. sad, unhappy

Antonyms


German

Adjective

triste

  1. inflected form of trist

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtris.te/, [ˈt̪r̺is̪t̪e]
  • Stress: trìste
  • Hyphenation: tri‧ste

Adjective

triste (masculine and feminine plural tristi)

  1. sad, unhappy, bleak
    Antonym: allegro

Derived terms


Latin

Adjective

trīste

  1. nominative neuter singular of trīstis
  2. accusative neuter singular of trīstis
  3. vocative neuter singular of trīstis

Adverb

trīste (not comparable)

  1. sadly

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste

Norman

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste m or f

  1. (Jersey) sad

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural form of trist

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

triste

  1. definite singular of trist
  2. plural form of trist

Old French

Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular triste)

  1. sad

Descendants


Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.tɨ/
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾis.tʃi/
    • (Carioca) IPA(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.tʃi/
    • (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾiʃ.ti/
    • (South Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈtɾis.te/
  • Hyphenation: tris‧te

Adjective

triste m or f (plural tristes, comparable)

  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

Inflection

Derived terms


Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtris.te]

Adjective

triste f pl or n pl

  1. nominative feminine plural of trist
  2. accusative feminine plural of trist
  3. nominative neuter plural of trist
  4. accusative neuter plural of trist

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin trīstis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis. Compare also the Old Spanish form tristo, from a variant Vulgar Latin root.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɾiste/, [ˈt̪ɾist̪e]

Adjective

triste (plural tristes) (superlative tristísimo)

  1. sad
  2. joyless

Antonyms

Derived terms

References


Swedish

Adjective

triste

  1. absolute definite natural masculine form of trist.
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