different between pellucid vs crystalline

English

Etymology

From Latin pell?cidus, from per- (“very”) + l?cidus (“clear, bright”) (whence lucid), from l?ce? (“shine, be visible”). Surface analysis per- +? lucid; compare perfervid. Compare clear, crystal clear, both also with literal meaning “transparent” but metaphorical meaning “easily understood”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??lu?s?d/

Adjective

pellucid (comparative more pellucid, superlative most pellucid)

1. Allowing the passage of light; transparent.
   • 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island, ch. 16:

     . . . and the bright seaweeds and the brilliant corals shone in the depths of that pellucid water, as we rowed over it, like rare and precious gems.

   • 1862, Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market" in Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems, The World's Classics, Oxford University Press, 1913, 173-179, [1]

     You cannot think what figs / My teeth have met in, / What melons icy-cold / Piled on a dish of gold / Too huge for me to hold, / What peaches with a velvet nap; / Pellucid grapes without one seed: […]

   • 1979, Time, 22 October, 1979, [3]

     Opera star Tozzi sings with the richness of burnished bronze and Daniels complements him with her pellucid soprano.

2. Easily understood; clear.
   • 1994, Fritz Lanham in Houston Chronicle, 13 November, 1994, [4],

     Written in spare, pellucid prose, the book reads like a close-to-the-bone memoir.

   • 1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface:

     If I treat that grammar as pellucid, then I fail to call attention precisely to that sphere of language that establishes and disestablishes intelligibility, and that would be precisely to thwart my own project as I have described it to you here.

Synonyms

• (allowing passage of light): clear, limpid, lucid, translucent
• (easily understood): clear, crystal clear, lucid, translucent

Related terms

• elucidate
• lucid
• pellucidity
• perfervid

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English cristallyn, cristallyne, from Old French cristallin, from Latin crystall?nus (“like crystal”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??st.?l.a?n/

Adjective

crystalline (comparative more crystalline, superlative most crystalline)

1. Of, relating to, or composed of crystals.
2. (chemistry) Having a regular three-dimensional molecular structure.
3. Resembling crystal in being clear and transparent.
4. This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Antonyms

• amorphous

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

crystalline (plural crystallines)

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /krys?tal.li.ne/, [k??s??t?äl???n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kris?tal.li.ne/, [k?is?t??l?in?]

Adjective

crystalline

1. vocative masculine singular of crystallinus