Cristalle

Meaning of Cristalle

Cristalle, a lyrical blossom of the ancient Greek krystallos (“ice, rock crystal”) through the French cristal and English crystal, unfurls like a slice of Venetian glass kissed by Italian sunshine. In French it is softly enunciated kree-STAL (/kriˈstal/), and in English it sparkles as kris-TAL (/krɪˈstɑl/), each syllable gleaming with purity. Evoking the clarity of a dew-dappled garden at dawn and the warm glow of a Murano chandelier, it carries connotations of brilliance, resilience and inner luminosity—qualities as rare and refined as a hidden piazza off the Grand Canal. In the United States, Cristalle has always remained a charming secret, gracing fewer than twenty newborn girls annually in the late 1970s and early ’80s, earning it a distinctive, artful elegance that endures today.

Pronunciation

French

• Pronunced as kree-STAL (/kriˈstal/)

English

• Pronunced as kris-TAL (/krɪˈstɑl/)

• Crystal
• Christelle
• Christal
• Christabel
• Cristiana
• Christalyn
• Christella