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Latin
Etymology
Unknown. Variously compared to Proto-West Germanic *þrīstī (“bold, daring”), Ancient Greek δριμύς (drimús, “sharp; bitter”) and Old Church Slavonic дрѧхлъ (dręxlŭ, “sad”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
trīstis (neuter trīste, comparative trīstior, superlative trīstissimus, adverb trīste); third-declension two-termination adjective
- sad, unhappy, melancholy, morose
- Synonyms: maestus, infēlīx, miser, aeger
- Antonyms: laetus, alacer, vīvus, fēlīx
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.315–316:
- excidit officium trīstī mihi. nūlla tuēbar
rūra, nec in pretiō fertilis hortus erat.- In sadness my duty was forgotten. I was guarding not
the fields, neither was a fertile garden in value.
- sorrowful, mournful
- disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)
- foul, offensive (of smell)
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Reflexes of the late variant trīstus:
- Balkan Romance:
- North Italian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Insular Romance:
Unsorted borrowings:
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “tristis”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 706
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “trīstis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 630
- ^ Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “trīstis, -e”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 703
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1092”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1092
Further reading
- “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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) an evil omen; presage of ill: omen infaustum, triste