tristesse

See also: Tristesse

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tristesse.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -ɛs

Noun

tristesse (uncountable)

(literary) sadness
- 2007 January 14, Liesl Schillinger, quoting Martin Amis, “Siberian Fields”, in New York Times‎:
  “The peculiar resonance of his postcoital tristesse, for example.”

Anagrams

resistest

Dutch

Etymology

From French tristesse.

Noun

tristesse f (plural tristesses, diminutive tristessetje n)

tristesse

French

Etymology

First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste +‎ -esse, modeled after Latin tristitia.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʁis.tɛs/
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Noun

tristesse f (plural tristesses)

sadness
La tristesse durera
the sadness will last

See also

triste

References

etymology

Further reading

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

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