tristem

tristem is a Latin form of tristis, meaning “sad, sorrowful, gloomy; harsh, stern”. It is the accusative singular feminine adjective.

Found 109 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.32: … iste ab sese hydriam Boethi manu factam praeclaro opere et grandi pondere per potestatem abstulisset, se sane tristem et conturbatum domum revertisse, quod vas eius modi, quod sibi a patre et a maioribus esset relictum, quo sol …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 4.21.1: Tristem et acerbum casum Helvidiarum sororum! Utraque a partu, utraque filiam enixa decessit.

All forms of tristis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.