Tristis, & hoc triste. Vir. Sad: heauie: ful of discomforture: sorowfull: cruel: of much grauitie: bitter: difficulte: harde: angrie.Triste silentium, & mœstitia tacita Liu.Tristis & conturbatus. Ci. Triste ac seuerum genus dicendi. Ci. Suppliciter tristis.Virg. Tristis.Virg.Hortible: cruel. Virgil. Illi mea tristia fata. &c. Tristis. Ci. Graue. vt, Tristis, sonus. Cic.A graue sowne. Tristis. Nonius. Angry. Timeo certe ne mihi sit tristior. Lucret. Tristis lacerna. Mart. Of an il fauoured sad colour. Aegrimonia tristis. Hor. That maketh sad.Antiquitas tristis & impexa. Tac. Arbor tristis aspectu. Pli. An vnoleasaunt tree to behold.Arma tristia. Tibul. Bellum triste. Sen. Clades tristis. Hor. Carmina tristia. Oui. Cor triste. Virg.Curæ tristes.Virg.Sorowful cares.Damna tristia.Ouid.Domus tristis sine sole. Vir. Exta tristia.Virg.Bowels of a sacrifice signifying yll lucke to come.Facinus triste.Ouid.An horrible act.Fortuna tristis.Ouid.It sortune.Frons tristis. Tibul. Seuere.Funus triste.Virg.Hyems tristis. Vir. A rough winter.Ianua nostræ artis est tristissima. Oui. The entrannce of our art is mest difficult and harde.Imago tristis Ponti, Vide IMAOO.Imago tristissima noctis.Ouid.The most sorrowful imagination of that night, wherein so great wiserie was receiued.Iræ cristes. Vir. Dare ad aliquem literas tristes. Ci. Sorowsnl.Mens tristis.Ouid.Morbus tristis. Vir. Nebulæ tristes. Sta. Mors tristis. Sea. Nefas triste. Vir. Nox tristior, qum tempora Phœbi.Ouid.The night more paineful to abide, than the day.Nubila tristia.Ouid.Oratio tristis. Quint. Ora tristia.Virg.A mouth that hath tasted bitter and vnpleasant things.Pœna tristis.Ouid.Querimoniæ tristes. Hor. Sermo tristis. Hor. Ruinæ tristes. Vir. Sors tristis, atrox. Ci. Senectus tristis.Virg. Supercilium triste. Lucret. Tempus triste.Ouid.Aduersltie.Verba tristia. Horar. Verbum tristissimum. Ci. Vultus tristis.Ouid. Patrare aliquid triste. Tac. Statuere triste aliquid.Ouid. Tristis succus. Vir. A bitter luice.Absynthium triste. Sapor tristis. Ouid.Suauiolum tristi tristius helleboro. Catul. Index tristis ac integer.Cic.A senere and vpright indgt. Inuitat tristis. Ter. He biddeth with an ill wil, or againste his wyl. Accipio tristis. Ter. I take it with a sad countenaunce.
tristis, e, adj. [etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. trastas, frightened; and Lat. terreo], sad, sorrowful, mournful, dejected, melancholy, disconsolate, trist (syn.: maestus, severus, austerus, luctuosus). I. In gen.: maesti tristesque, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 4, 18: cum maestus errares, quaerere ex te, quid tristis esses, Cic. Div. 1, 28, 59: tristis et conturbatus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 14, 32: tristis, demissus, id. Mur. 21, 45: sic tristes affatus amicos, Hor. C. 1, 7, 24: Sequanos tristes, capite demisso, terram intueri, Caes. B. G. 1, 32: numquam ego te tristiorem Vidi esse, Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 55: oderunt hilarem tristes, tristemque jocosi, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 89: (faciet) hominem ex tristi lepidum et lenem, Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 7: quid tu tristis es?id. ib. 2, 2, 6; id. Men. 5, 2, 27; 5, 2, 59: quid es tam tristis?Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 20: malle se adulescentem tristem quam hilarem, Sen. Ep. 36, 3: tristis Erat et me maestum videbat, Curt. 6, 11, 27; Sen. Tranq. 15, 4.—B.Transf.1. Of things associated with misfortune or suggestive of sadness, melancholy, saddening, unhappy: ut tuum laetissimum diem cum tristissimo meo conferam, Cic. Pis. 14, 33; cf.: vel defensus tristibus temporibus vel ornatus secundis, id. Fam. 15, 7: esse vultu tristi, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 124: tristissima exta, Cic. Div. 2, 15, 36: tristissimi exsilii solatium, Liv. 5, 51, 1: tristissimam exegimus noctem,
, Hor. S. 1, 3, 87: Hyades, id. C. 1, 3, 14: Orion, id. Epod. 10, 10: bella, id. A. P. 73: clades, id. C. 3, 3, 62: morbus, Verg. G. 4, 252: fatum, Hor. S. 1, 9, 29: jus sepulcri, Ov. M. 13, 472: officium (exsequiarum), id. ib. 12, 4: funera, Verg. G. 4, 256; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 74: pars subiere feretro, Triste ministerium, Verg. A. 6, 223: Tartara, id. ib. 4, 243: Acheron, Sil. 13, 571: tristique palus inamabilis undā, Verg. A. 6, 438; Hor. C. 2, 14, 8: arbores,
gloomy
,
sombre
, Plin. 16, 25, 40, 95: adspectus (arboris), id. 13, 22, 40, 120: tristes et squalidi trunci, Sen. Ep. 12, 1.—2. Of taste: quod triste et amarum est,
harsh
,
disagreeable
,
bitter
, Lucr. 4, 634: suci, Verg. G. 2, 126: lupinum, id. ib. 1, 75: absinthia, Ov. P. 3, 1, 23; 3, 8, 15: epulae, Sil. 3, 281: sapor. Ov. Tr. 4, 6, 12: pocula, Tib. 1, 5, 50.—3. Of smell, offensive, foul: anhelitus oris, Ov. A. A. 1, 521.—4. As subst.: triste, is, n., a sad thing, etc. (poet.): triste lupus stabulis, maturis frugibus imbres, Arboribus venti,
a sad thing
,
a pest
,
bane
, Verg. E. 3, 80: interdum miscentur tristia laetis, Ov. F. 6, 463; cf.: nunc ego mitibus Mutare quaero tristia, Hor. C. 1, 16, 26. Thus Ovid called his elegies that were written in exile Tristia.—II. In partic. A. Of behavior, etc., towards others. 1.Glum, gloomy, peevish, morose, ill-humored (syn.: tetricus, severus, austerus): stultitia est, ei te esse tristem, Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 4: eia, mea Juno, non decet te esse tam tristem tuo Jovi, id. ib. 2, 3, 14: mihi erit tristior, Afran. ap. Non. 410, 2: tristis amica ingrato viro, Prop. 1, 6, 10: puella, id. 1, 10, 21: navita tristis (Charon),
gloomy
,
sullen
, Verg. A. 6, 315; so, dii, Hor. S. 1, 5, 103: Erinys, Verg. A. 2, 337: sorores, i. e.
the Fates
, Tib. 3, 3, 35; Sen. Tranq. 7, 6: ursa, Stat. Achill. 2, 409.—2.Stern, harsh, severe: judex tristis et integer, Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 30; cf.: cum tristibus severe, cum remissis jucunde vivere, id. Cael. 6, 13.—B.Transf., of things, gloomy, sad, melancholy, stern, harsh, etc.: truculentis oculis, tristi fronte, Plaut. As. 2, 3, 21: voltus, id. Most. 3, 2, 124: fronte gravi et tristi supercilio, Plin. Pan. 41, 3: idem naturā tristiori paululo, Afran. ap. Non. 410, 2: vultus severior et tristior, Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 289; cf.: tristis severitas inest in vultu, Ter. And. 5, 2, 16: vita tristior, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 108: triste et severum genus dicendi, id. Brut. 30, 113; cf.: sermo tristis (opp. jocosus), Hor. S. 1, 10, 11: senectus, Verg. ap. Sen. Ep. 108, 29; cf.: tristis et plenus dignitatis sonus, Cic. Rep. 6, 2, 7: perfert in judiciis tristem et impexam antiquitatem, Tac. Or. 20.—Of languages, etc.: tua tristia dicta, Verg. A. 10, 612: sententia, Ov. M. 15, 43; Liv. 8, 21, 2: responsum, id. 9, 16, 3: senatūs consultum, id. 5, 6, 2.— Adv.: tristĕ, sadly, sorrowfully; harshly, severely: salutantes, Stat. Th. 4, 19: triste et acutum resonare, Hor. S. 1, 8, 41: rigens frons, Stat. S. 5, 1, 64.—Comp.: flere tristius, Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 2: adulescentes gravius aegrotant, tristius curantur,