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- Portuguese · borrowed fromtristeza“sadness”
- English todaytristeza
Borrowed from Portuguese tristeza (“sadness”), referring to the devastation it caused in South America in the 1930s.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
tristeza
Today it means: A damaging viral disease of citrus plants, caused by Closterovirus. Full definition →
Portuguese tristeza