crystalline

English

Alternative forms

• chrystalline (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin, from Latin crystallinus, from Ancient Greek κρυστάλλινος (krustállinos), from κρύσταλλος (krústallos, “crystal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪs.tə.lɪn/, /ˈkɹɪs.təˌlaɪn/, /ˈkɹɪs.təˌliːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

crystalline (comparative more crystalline, superlative most crystalline)

1. Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.

   Synonym: crystal

2. (chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
3. Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
   • 1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iii:

     There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.

4. Pure.
   • 2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     not in his favoured midfield role, either but as a false No 9: the sort of role Guardiola only hands to his chosen, crystalline few: Mario Götze at Bayern Munich (less successfully), Lionel Messi at Barcelona (a little more so).

Antonyms

• amorphous

Derived terms

• anticrystalline
• cryptocrystalline
• crystalline arthritis
• crystalline humor
• crystalline humour
• crystalline lens
• crystallinely
• crystallineness
• crystallinity
• extracrystalline
• heterocrystalline
• holocrystalline
• hypercrystalline
• hypocrystalline
• intercrystalline
• intracrystalline
• isocrystalline
• macrocrystalline
• magnetocrystalline
• mesocrystalline
• microcrystalline
• monocrystalline
• multicrystalline
• nanocrystalline
• neurocrystalline
• noncrystalline
• oligocrystalline
• paracrystalline
• pericrystalline
• phanerocrystalline
• polycrystalline
• procrystalline
• pseudocrystalline
• quasicrystalline
• semicrystalline
• spherocrystalline
• subcrystalline
• uncrystalline

 

Translations

relating to crystals

• Albanian: kristalin
• Bulgarian: кристален (bg) (kristalen)
• Catalan: cristal·lí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: krystalický (cs)
• Danish: krystallinsk
• Dutch: kristallijn (nl)
• Finnish: kiteinen (fi)
• French: cristallin (fr) m
• Galician: cristalino (gl) m
• German: kristallin (de), kristallinisch, kristallen (de), Kristall- (de)
• Greek: κρυσταλλικός (el) m (krystallikós)
• Hungarian: kristályos (hu)
• Irish: criostalach, criostalta
• Italian: cristallino (it)
• Japanese: 結晶性 (けっしょうせい, kesshousei)
• Latvian: kristālisks m, kristāliska f
• Malay: berhablur, habluran, berkristal, kristalin
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krystallinsk

  Nynorsk: krystallinsk

• Persian: بلورین (fa) (bolurin)
• Polish: krystaliczny (pl)
• Portuguese: cristalino (pt)
• Russian: кристалли́ческий (ru) (kristallíčeskij), (cut-glass) хруста́льный (ru) (xrustálʹnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: крѝсталнӣ

  Roman: krìstalnī (sh)

• Spanish: cristalino (es)
• Swedish: kristallin (sv), kristallinisk
• Tagalog: malakristal

having a regular molecular structure

• Dutch: kristalvormig (nl)
• German: kristallin (de)
• Persian: بلورین (fa) (bolurin), بلوری (fa) (boluri)

resembling crystal in being clear and transparent

• Albanian: kristalin
• Catalan: cristal·lí (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 粼粼 (zh) (línlín)

• Dutch: glashelder (nl)
• Finnish: kristallinkirkas (fi)
• French: cristallin (fr) m
• German: kristallklar (de)
• Malay: berhablur, habluran, berkristal, kristalin
• Persian: بلورین (fa) (bolurin)
• Polish: krystaliczny (pl) m
• Portuguese: cristalino (pt)
• Russian: криста́льно чи́стый (kristálʹno čístyj)
• Spanish: cristalino (es)
• Tagalog: malakristal

Noun

crystalline (plural crystallines)

1. (obsolete) Any crystalline substance.
2. (obsolete) aniline

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /krysˈtal.li.ne/, [krʏs̠ˈt̪älːʲɪnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /krisˈtal.li.ne/, [krisˈt̪älːine]

Adjective

crystalline

1. vocative masculine singular of crystallinus