German

Noun

Tristesse f ‎(genitive Tristesse, plural Tristessen)

1. sadness, misery

English

Noun

tristesse ‎(uncountable)

1. (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.”

Dutch

Etymology

From French tristesse.

Noun

tristesse f ‎(plural tristesses, diminutive tristessetje n)

1. tristesse

French

Etymology

First attested in Old French as tristesce, tristece. From triste +‎ -esse, modelled after Latin tristitia.

Pronunciation

Noun

tristesse f ‎(plural tristesses)

1. sadness

   La tristesse durera‎

   the sadness will last

See also

• triste

References

• etymology