tristesse
See also: Tristesse
English
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.”
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Dutch
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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See also
References
Further reading
- “tristesse” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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