tristitia

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Latin

Etymology

From trīstis (sad) +‎ -itia.

Pronunciation

Noun

trīstitia f (genitive trīstitiae); first declension

  1. sadness, sorrow, melancholy, sloth
    Synonyms: maeror, maestitia, aegritūdō, trīstitūdō, tristitās, lūctus, cūra, dēsīderium
    Antonyms: gaudium, dēlectātiō, lascīvia, voluptās, laetitia, alacritās
    • 1997, Paul Colilli, The Idea of a Living Spirit: Poetic Logic as a Contemporary Theory (Toronto studies in semiotics)‎ (in English), University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 122:
      In the Liber de conflictu vitiorum et virtutum, St Augustine writes that tristitia has both a negative and a positive dimension; one that aims for redemption, a second one that leads to dread and desperation. []
  2. the (sad) state of things
  3. (of demeanor) moroseness, sourness

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative trīstitia trīstitiae
genitive trīstitiae trīstitiārum
dative trīstitiae trīstitiīs
accusative trīstitiam trīstitiās
ablative trīstitiā trīstitiīs
vocative trīstitia trīstitiae

Descendants

References

  • tristitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tristitia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tristitia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.