maestus (not moest-), adj. with sup. MIS-, full of sadness, sad, sorrowful, dejected, melancholy, gloomy, despondent: cum maestus errares: senex: maestissimus Hector, V.: morte Tigelli, H.: maestam videre urbem, Iu.: voltus, V.: maestae manus, O.: maestas sacravimus aras, V.

—Gloomy, severe: Ille neci maestum mittit Oniten, V.: vestis, a mourning garment, Pr.: avis, of ill omen, O.