(adjective) : tristis, e, etym. dub.; cf. Sanscr. trastas, frightened; and Lat. terreo
* Sad, sorrowful, mournful, dejected, melancholy, disconsolate, trist (syn.: maestus, severus, austerus, luctuosus).
* 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,Cic. 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.
* Transf.
* In partic.
* 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.
* Of smell, offensive, foul: anhelitus oris,Ov. A. A. 1, 521.
* 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.
* Of behavior, etc., towards others.
* 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.
* 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,with more difficulty,Cic. Sen. 19, 67: respondere tristius,more harshly,id. Fam. 4, 13, 5.