trist

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɹɪst/

Etymology 1

Apparently related to trust.

Noun

trist (plural trists)

  1. (obsolete) Trust, faith.

Verb

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

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

Etymology 2

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

Noun

trist (plural trists)

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

Etymology 3

French triste (“sad”).

Adjective

trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)

  1. (obsolete) sad; sorrowful; gloomy
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Anagrams

Breton

Etymology

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

Adjective

trist

  1. sad

Derived terms

Catalan

Etymology

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.

Adjective

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

  1. sad, unhappy

Antonyms

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

  1. sad
  2. (of a situation) sad

References

Friulian

Etymology

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

Adjective

trist

  1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

Synonyms

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French triste.

Adjective

trist (comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

  1. dull
  2. miserable
  3. sad

Declension

Comparative forms of trist
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist trister sie ist trister es ist trister sie sind trister
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative tristerer tristere tristeres tristere
genitive tristeren tristerer tristeren tristerer
dative tristerem tristerer tristerem tristeren
accusative tristeren tristere tristeres tristere
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der tristere die tristere das tristere die tristeren
genitive des tristeren der tristeren des tristeren der tristeren
dative dem tristeren der tristeren dem tristeren den tristeren
accusative den tristeren die tristere das tristere die tristeren
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein tristerer eine tristere ein tristeres (keine) tristeren
genitive eines tristeren einer tristeren eines tristeren (keiner) tristeren
dative einem tristeren einer tristeren einem tristeren (keinen) tristeren
accusative einen tristeren eine tristere ein tristeres (keine) tristeren

Synonyms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin tristis, via French triste and German trist.

Adjective

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

References

Romanian

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [trist]

Adjective

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

  1. sad

Declension

Antonyms

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) trest

Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

Adjective

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

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) sad

Antonyms

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

Serbo-Croatian

Numeral

trist (Cyrillic spelling трист)

  1. (colloquial) thirty

Synonyms

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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

Declension

Inflection of trist
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular trist tristare tristast
Neuter singular trist tristare tristast
Plural trista tristare tristast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 triste tristare tristaste
All trista tristare tristaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin trīstis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

  1. sad

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalaspirate
trist drist nhrist thrist
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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