Noun: tristizia
Gender: f
Hyphenation: tri‧stì‧zia
| Singular f | tristizia |
| Plural f | tristizie |
Sample Sentences
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Non credo ch'a veder maggior tristizia
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fosse in Egina il popol tutto infermo,
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quando fu l'aere sì pien di malizia,
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che li animali, infino al picciol vermo,
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cascaron tutti […] (I do not think a greater sadness was in Aegina the whole people sick, when was the air so full of pestilence, the animals, down to the little worm, all fell) [1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIX”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 58–62; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
Nouns inflected like tristizia
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin trīstitia, derived from trīstis (“sad”). Doublet of tristezza, the inherited counterpart. See: Latin Nouns '
trīstitia'.
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