tristia

tristia is a Latin form of tristis, meaning “sad, sorrowful, gloomy; harsh, stern”. It is the nominative plural neuter adjective.

Found 159 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes 4.39: … lenter, nec porro malum, quo aut oppressus iaceas aut, ne opprimare, mente vix constes? eaque omnia aut nimis tristia aut nimis laeta errore fieri, qui si error stultis extenuetur die, ut, cum res eadem maneat, aliter ferant in …

Ovid, Amores 2.6.41: Tristia Phylacidae Thersites funera vidit,

Propertius, Elegiae 2.33a.1: TRISTIA iam redeunt iterum sollemnia nobis:

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.