# trist
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɹɪst/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪst

### Etymology 1

Apparently related to trust.

#### Noun

trist (plural trists)
* (obsolete) Trust, faith.

#### Verb

trist (third-person singular simple present trists, present participle tristing, simple past and past participle tristed)
* (obsolete) To trust, have faith in.

### Etymology 2

From Old French triste. Compare tryst.

#### Noun

trist (plural trists)
* (obsolete) A set station in hunting.
* (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
#### Adjective

trist (comparative more trist, superlative most trist)
* Alternative form of triste (“sad; sorrowful; gloomy”).
** 1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Thirteenth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, →OCLC, stanza 29, page 240:A bitter ſorrow by the hart him bit, / Amas’d, aſham’d, diſgras’d, ſad, ſilent, triſt, [...]

### Anagrams

* ritts, trits

## Breton
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis. Compare Welsh trist, French triste.

### Adjective

trist
* sad

#### Derived terms

* tristidigezh

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan trist, from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Occitan triste.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtɾist]

### Adjective

trist (feminine trista, masculine plural trists or tristos, feminine plural tristes)
* sad, unhappy
    Antonyms: feliç, alegre

#### Derived terms

* tristesa
* tristament
* entristir

### References

* “trist” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “trist”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “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.

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Latin trīstis.

### Pronunciation

IPA: /triːst/

### Adjective

trist
* sad, mournful

### References

* in Gerlyver Kernewek
* Gerlyver Meur, 3rd Edition, 2020

## 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)
* sad
* (of a situation) sad
Inflection
$^1$ When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. $^2$ The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

### References

* “trist” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Friulian
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

### Adjective

trist
* bad, wicked, evil, malevolent

#### Synonyms

* cjâtif
* malcreât
* necuitôs

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from French triste. Ultimately from Latin trīstis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʁɪst/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

trist (strong nominative masculine singular trister, comparative trister, superlative am tristesten)
* dull
* miserable
* sad

#### Synonyms

* trostlos, öde

### Further reading

* “trist” in Duden online
* “trist” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

## Middle English
### Noun

trist
* 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)
* sad
* depressing
* (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)
* sad
* depressing
* (as an adverb) sadly

### References

* “trist” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

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

#### Derived terms

* atristar
* entristar
* entristesir
* entristir
* tristament
* tristesa
* tristor

### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 320.
* Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎, 2 edition, →ISBN, page 998.

## Piedmontese
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis. Compare Italian tristo.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtrist/

### Adjective

trist
* sad

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trist/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

trist m or n (feminine singular tristă, masculine plural triști, feminine and neuter plural triste)
* sad
    Antonyms: fericit, bucuros, vesel

#### Related terms

* tristețe

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* trest (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin trīstus, from Latin trīstis.

### Adjective

trist m (feminine singular trista, masculine plural trists, feminine plural tristas)
* (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)
* (colloquial) thirty
    Synonym: (Standard) trideset

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French triste, from Latin tristis.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

trist (comparative tristare, superlative tristast)
* boring
* not fun, bad, a pity
    Det var trist att höra att din kanin döttI’m sorry to hear that your bunny died

#### Declension

$^1$ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. $^2$ Dated or archaic. $^3$ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

### References

* trist in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* trist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* trist in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Middle Welsh trist, from Old Welsh trist, from Proto-Brythonic *trist, from Latin trīstis.

### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /triːsd/, [triːst]
* (South Wales) IPA: /trɪsd/, [trɪst]
* Rhymes: -iːsd, -ɪsd

### Adjective

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

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “trist”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies