tryst

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English tryst, trist, from Old French triste, tristre (“waiting place, appointed station in hunting”), probably from a North Germanic source such as Old Norse treysta (“to make safe, secure”), from traust (“confidence, trust, security, help, shelter, safe abode”), from Proto-Germanic *traustą (“trust, shelter”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru-, *dreu-, *drū- (“to be firm, be solid”). Doublet of trust, see there for more. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɹɪst/, /tɹaɪst/ Rhymes: -ɪst, -aɪst === Noun === tryst (plural trysts) A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time. 2005, Julian Baggini, The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments, №91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; →ISBN, 9781862078550) If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst, then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead? (obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant. (Scotland, historical) A market fair, especially a recurring one held on a schedule, where livestock sales took place. Coordinate terms: fair, mart, market, farmers' market ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === tryst (third-person singular simple present trysts, present participle trysting, simple past and past participle trysted) (intransitive) To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. (transitive) To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.). (intransitive) To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === RTTYs == West Frisian == === Etymology === Related to Dutch triest. Ultimately borrowed from Latin tristis; compare French triste. === Adjective === tryst sad sorrowful ==== Inflection ==== ==== Further reading ==== “tryst”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011