Cristen

• Cristene, Xp̄isten, Xp̄en, Crisstene, Cristine, cristin, Cristyn, crysten, crystone, crystyne, cristeyn

From Old English cristen, from Latin Christiānus, from Ancient Greek Χριστιανός (Khristianós). Compare Cristien.

As in drightin, variant of dright, forms in /-iːn(ə)/ are influenced by Old French -in, and -īnus; this already occurs in the Old English inflected stem cristīn-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkristən/
• IPA^(key): /krisˈtiːn(ə)/

Cristen (superlative cristeneste)

1. Christian (one who believes in Christ)
2. Christian (related, controlled, characteristic of, or belonging to those who believe in Christ)
3. ecclesiastical, of the church.

• Cristendom
• Cristenhode
• cristenly

• English: Christen

Cristen (plural Cristenes)

1. A Christian; a believer in Christ.
2. (rare) The whole of Christianity; the Christian peoples of the world.

• “Cristen, adj. & n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 27 April 2018.
• Sisam, Celia (1983), “Early Middle English Drihtin”, in Douglas Gray, E. G. Stanley, editors, Middle English Studies Presented to Norman Davis in Honour of his Seventieth Birthday, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 248-254; reprinted 1985.