triste

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɪst/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophones: trist, tryst
• Rhymes: -ɪst

Etymology 1

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French triste, from Latin trīstis (“sad, sorrowful”).

Etymology 2

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Sitter, Strite, Tetris, sitter, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triest

Adjective

triste

1. plural and definite singular attributive of trist

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʁist/

• Audio (France, Paris)

  (file)

• Homophone: tristes
• Hyphenation: triste

Adjective

triste (plural tristes)

1. sad

See also

• maussade
• morne
• misérable
• lamentable

Further reading

• “triste” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• titres

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste m, f (plural tristes)

1. sad, unhappy

Adjective

triste

1. inflected form of trist

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste (masculine and feminine plural tristi)

1. sad, unhappy, bleak

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
    

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste m, f

1. (Jersey) sad

Adjective

triste

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

Adjective

triste

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

Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

Adjective

triste m (oblique and nominative feminine singular triste)

1. sad

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, 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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtris.te]

Adjective

triste f pl, n pl

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

Etymology

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

Adjective

triste (plural tristes) (superlative tristísimo)

1. sad
2. joyless

References

Adjective

triste

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of trist.