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“sad” in Latin
trīstissad, unhappy, melancholy, morose; sorrowful, mournful; disagreeable, harsh, bitter (of taste)maestussad, sorrowful, melancholy; gloomy; mournful, of or pertaining to mourning or sadnessmaereōto be sad or mournful; mourn, grieve, lament; to mourn or lament over, bewail, bemoanafflīgōto strike, beat, dash (against); cast or throw down, prostrate; to afflict, damage, injure, crush, break or ruin; to hummiserpoor, wretched, pitiful; miserable, unhappy; worthless, nullmiserābilispitiable, miserable, deplorable, lamentable, wretched, sad, pitiful, patheticgravisheavy; pregnant; troublesome, hardacerbusharsh, bitter, unripe, sour, premature, not yet marriageable; sharp, severe, bitter (i.e., extremely painful); rough, vilūctuōsussorrowful, sad; lamentable, doleful, mournfulhilarischeerful, lively, light-hearted, merry, jovial
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
sad
Sorrowful, tristis (of a sorrowful mien; opposed to laetus, hilaris): maestus, maerens (cast down, depressed in spirits): afflictus (greatly dejected): permaestus (very sad). Rather sad, subtristis (Terentianus); tristiculus (Cic.): to make anybody sad, maerore aliquem affligere; magnam maestitiam alicui inferre: to be sad, in maerore, in maestitia, in luctu esse: to be very sad, maerore affligi, confici.
Causing sorrow, mournful, tristis: miser: miserabilis: gravis: acerbus: luctuosus.
Serious, grave, Vid:
Dark-colored, Vid.
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for sad?
- The usual Latin words for “sad” are trīstis, maestus, maereō; also afflīgō, miser, miserābilis. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.