different between trist vs triest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/

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.
2. (obsolete, form of tryst) (secret meeting).
   • 1543, anonymous, Howard Papers, 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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairfax to this entry?)

Anagrams

• trits

Breton

Etymology

Compare Welsh trist, French triste. Ultimately from Latin tr?stis.

Adjective

trist

1. sad

Derived terms

• tristidigezh

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *tristus (compare Italian and Old Spanish tristo, Sardinian tristu, Romanian trist), variant of Latin tr?stis, from Proto-Indo-European *tréystis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?t?ist/

Adjective

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

1. sad, unhappy

Antonyms

• feliç, alegre

Derived terms

• tristesa
• tristament
• entristir

Further reading

• “trist” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “trist” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “trist” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “trist” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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

• “trist” in Den Danske Ordbog

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin tr?stis, possibly through a Vulgar Latin form *tristus. Compare Italian tristo.

Adjective

trist

1. bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

Synonyms

• cjâtif
• malcreât
• necuitôs

German

Etymology

Borrowed from French triste. Ultimately from Latin tr?stis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??st/

Adjective

trist (comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)

1. dull
2. miserable
3. sad

Declension

Synonyms

• trostlos, öde

Further reading

• “trist” in Duden online

Middle English

Noun

trist

1. Alternative form of trest

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

Derived terms

• tristhet

References

• “trist” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• “trist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Vulgar Latin *tristus. [from the 12th century]

Adjective

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

1. sad

Derived terms

Further reading

• Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2016, page 320.
• Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians, 2 edition, ?ISBN, page 998.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trist/

Adjective

trist

1. sad

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tr?stis, 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 or n (feminine singular trist?, masculine plural tri?ti, feminine and neuter plural triste)

1. sad

Declension

Antonyms

• fericit, bucuros, vesel

Related terms

• triste?e

Romansch

Alternative forms

• trest (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

Etymology

From Latin tr?stis.

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 ?????)

1. (colloquial) thirty

Synonyms

• trideset (Standard)

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French triste, from Latin tristis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

trist (comparative tristare, superlative tristast)

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

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tr?stis.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /tri?st/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tr?st/

Adjective

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

1. sad

Mutation

English

Etymology

try +? -est

Verb

triest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of try

   • I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness.

Anagrams

• Sitter, Strite, Tetris, sitter, streit, tirest, titers, titres, tretis, triset, triste

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately borrowed from Latin tristis; compare French triste.

Pronunciation

Adjective

triest (comparative triester, superlative meest triest or triestst)

1. pitiful
2. sad

Inflection

Synonyms

• verdrietig
• tragisch

See also

• droevig
• treurig