sincere

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See also: Sincere, sinceré, and sincère

English

Etymology

From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sem- + *ḱer- (“grow”), from which also Ceres (“goddess of harvest”) from which English cereal.

Unrelated to sine (“without”) + cera (“wax”) (folk etymology); see Wikipedia page.

Pronunciation

Adjective

sincere (comparative more sincere or sincerer, superlative most sincere or sincerest)

  1. Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
    I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
  2. Meant truly or earnestly.
    She gave it a sincere if misguided effort.
  3. (archaic) clean; pure

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Esperanto

Etymology

sincera +‎ -e

Pronunciation

Adverb

sincere

  1. sincerely

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Italian

Adjective

sincere f pl

  1. feminine plural of sincero

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Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

sincērē (not comparable)

  1. uprightly, honestly, frankly, sincerely
    • 1st century, Catullus, Poem 109
      Di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit // atque id sincere dicat ex animo

Etymology 2

Adjective

sincēre

  1. vocative masculine singular of sincērus

References

  • “sincere”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sincere”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Middle French

Etymology

First attested in 1441, borrowed from Latin sincērus.

Adjective

sincere m or f (plural sinceres)

  1. sincere (genuinely meaning what one says or does)

Descendants

  • → English: sincere
  • French: sincère

References

  1. ^ Etymology and history of “sincère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Spanish

Verb

sincere

  1. inflection of sincerar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
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