pristine

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French pristin, borrowed from Latin prīstinus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪstiːn/, /pɹɪsˈtiːn/, (uncommon) /pɹɪsˈtaɪn/, /ˈpɹɪstaɪn/, (obsolete) /ˈpɹɪstɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈprɪˌstin/, /prɪˈstin/

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• Hyphenation: pris‧tine
• Rhymes: -iːn, -aɪn, -ɪstin

Adjective

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Unspoiled; still with its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied.

   Synonyms: immaculate, spotless, unsullied, unspoiled, pure, untouched

   Antonyms: corrupted, tainted, dirty, polluted, spoiled

   The beach back is in pristine condition after a council-led cleanup.

   • 2020, The Acacia Strain, “Solace and Serenity”, in Slow Decay:

     Fire fueled with gasoline
     Life is beautiful, the world is pristine
     We have been bound unseen
     The walls of existence remain unclean

2. Primitive, pertaining to the earliest state of something.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     Thus fable reports that the fair Grimalkin, whom Venus, at the desire of a passionate lover, converted from a cat into a fine woman, no sooner perceived a mouse than, mindful of her former sport, and still retaining her pristine nature, she leaped from the bed of her husband to pursue the little animal.

3. Perfect.

Derived terms

• pristinely
• pristineness
• repristinate
• repristination
• unpristine

Translations

unspoiled

• Azerbaijani: təmiz (az), pak (az)
• Bulgarian: девствен (bg) (devstven), недокоснат (bg) (nedokosnat)
• Catalan: primitiu (ca), primer (ca), pristí
• Czech: čistý (cs) m, nezkažený m, panenský (cs) m, neposkvrněný, nedotčený (cs) m
• Dutch: ongerept (nl), oorspronkelijk (nl), onaangeroerd (nl)
• Esperanto: antaŭa, primitiva (eo)
• Finnish: tahraton (fi), koskematon (fi), turmeltumaton
• French: virginal (fr), immaculé (fr), parfait (fr)
• Galician: prístino (gl)
• German: unberührt (de), jungfräulich (de), makellos (de)
• Greek: αγνός (el) (agnós), παρθένος (el) (parthénos)
• Icelandic: óspilltur, ósnortinn, óskemmdur
• Interlingua: pristine
• Italian: incontaminato (it), pristino (it), puro (it), intonso (it)
• Māori: tikitū, toitū, urutapu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: urørt (no), ufordervet, jomfruelig

• Polish: dziewiczy, nietknięty, nieskażony (pl)
• Portuguese: virgem (pt), pristino, imaculado (pt)
• Romanian: virgin (ro)
• Russian: чи́стый (ru) (čístyj), нетро́нутый (ru) (netrónutyj), неиспо́рченный (ru) (neispórčennyj), де́вственный (ru) (dévstvennyj) (virginal)
• Scottish Gaelic: glan
• Spanish: virgen (es), prístino (es) (deprecated by the RAE)
• Swedish: ofördärvad, ursprunglig (sv)
• Turkish: bakir (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: آری (arı)

• Welsh: cyntefig (cy), gwyryfol (cy)

pertaining to the earliest state of something

• Bulgarian: първичен (bg) (pǎrvičen), примитивен (bg) (primitiven)
• Catalan: pristí
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 原始的 (zh) (yuánshǐ de)

• Czech: prapůvodní, prastarý (cs) m, prvotní
• French: primitif (fr), antique (fr), d'origine (fr)
• Galician: prístino (gl)
• German: ursprünglich (de)
• Greek: αρχαίος (el) m (archaíos), πρωτόγονος (el) m (protógonos)
• Icelandic: upprunalegur (is), upphaflegur (is)
• Irish: cianaosta
• Latin: pristinus
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: opprinnelig (no), opphavelig

• Polish: pierwotny (pl)
• Portuguese: prisco (pt), primitivo (pt), antigo (pt)
• Russian: изнача́льный (ru) (iznačálʹnyj), первонача́льный (ru) (pervonačálʹnyj), первобы́тный (ru) (pervobýtnyj) (primeval)
• Spanish: prístino (es)

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek πρίστις (prístis, “saw, sawfish”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪn

Adjective

pristine (comparative more pristine, superlative most pristine)

1. Relating to sawfishes of the family Pristidae.
   • 2008, J.M. Whitty with N.M. Phillips, D.L. Morgan, J.A. Chaplin, D.C. Thorburn, and S.C. Peverell, “Habitat associations of Freshwater Sawfish (Pristis microdon)and Northern River Sharks (Glyphis sp. C): including genetic analysis of P. microdon across northern Australia”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], archived from the original on 1 June 2012:

     This indicates that the present levels of genetic diversity in P. microdon are not unusually low, although the amount of diversity to be expected in pristine populations of coastal species of elasmobranch remains elusive because all populations investigated to date have suffered some degree of decline (e.g. Sandoval-Castillo et al. 2004, Keeney et al. 2005, Hoelzel et al. 2006, Stow et al. 2006, Lewallen et al. 2007).

Derived terms

• pristane
• pristanoyl

Anagrams

• spiriten, Petrinis, enspirit

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpris.ti.ne/
• Rhymes: -istine
• Hyphenation: prì‧sti‧ne

Adjective

pristine

1. feminine plural of pristino

Anagrams

• pentirsi, respinti, rispenti, rispinte

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpriːs.tɪ.nɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈpris.ti.ne]

Adjective

prīstine

1. vocative masculine singular of prīstinus