tristitia

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

trīstitia ae, f

tristis, sadness, mournfulness, sorrow, grief, melancholy, gloom, dejection : tum ad tristitiam, tum ad laetitiam est contorquendus: repente omnīs tristitia invasit, S.: in eādem tristitiā permanere, Cs.: compescere tristitiam, O.— Gloom : sol recedens quasi tristitiā quādam contrahit terram.— Sadness, disagreeableness : temporum.— Moroseness, harshness, sternness, severity : tristitiae causa tuae, O.: (risus) tristitiam mitigat.

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