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Latin
Etymology
From trīstis (“sad”) + -itia.
Pronunciation
Noun
trīstitia f (genitive trīstitiae); first declension
- 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. […]
- the (sad) state of things
- (of demeanor) moroseness, sourness
Declension
First-declension noun.
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.