FromMiddle Englishcristallyn,cristallyne, fromOld Frenchcristallin, fromLatincrystallinus, fromAncient Greekκρυστάλλινος(krustállinos), fromκρύσταλλος(krústallos,“crystal”).
- IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪs.tə.lɪn/,/ˈkɹɪs.təˌlaɪn/,/ˈkɹɪs.təˌliːn/
crystalline (comparativemorecrystalline,superlativemostcrystalline)
- Of, relating to, or composed ofcrystals.
- Synonym:crystal
- (chemistry) Having aregularthree-dimensionalmolecularstructure.
- Resemblingcrystal in beingclear andtransparent.
1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander 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 acryſtalline 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.
- Pure.
2020 August 7, Jonathan Liew, “Phil Foden stars to offer Manchester City glimpse of multiple futures”, inThe 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).
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
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having a regular molecular structure
resembling crystal in being clear and transparent
crystalline (pluralcrystallines)
- (obsolete) Anycrystallinesubstance.
- (obsolete)aniline
crystalline
- vocativemasculinesingular ofcrystallinus
