tristeza
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of tristeza
First recorded in 1900–05; from Latin American Spanish: literally, “sadness,” from Latin trīstitia
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In the 1950s, another terminal disease called quick decline — also known as la tristeza, or “the sadness” — prompted farmers to bulldoze thousands of acres of orchards to make way for tract housing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2024
Recently, for example, scientists at the Citrus Institute developed a monoclonal antibody to detect tristeza, a lethal virus that threatens to devastate the Caribbean citrus industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bring the guitar and I will see if it will quit me of this tristeza!
From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Walter J. Buck
It is often called Spanish fever, acclimation fever, red water, black water, distemper, murrain, dry murrain, yellow murrain, bloody murrain, Australian tick fever, and tristeza of South America.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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