sincere

See also: Sincere, sinceré, and sincère

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EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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

PronunciationEdit

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• IPA^(key): /sɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

AdjectiveEdit

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.

SynonymsEdit

• earnest
• onefold

AntonymsEdit

• insincere

Related termsEdit

• cereal
• Ceres
• crescent
• sincerity
• sincereness

TranslationsEdit

earnest

• Arabic: مُخْلَص‏‎ (muḵlaṣ)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azeri: səmimi (az)
• Basque: zintzo (eu)
• Catalan: sincer (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 真誠 (zh), 真诚 (zh) (zhēnchéng)

• Czech: upřímný (cs) m
• Dutch: oprecht (nl)
• Esperanto: sincera (eo)
• Estonian: siiras
• Finnish: vilpitön (fi)
• French: sincère (fr)
• Georgian: გულწრფელი (gulc̣rpeli)
• German: aufrichtig (de)
• Greek: ειλικρινής (el) m, f (eilikrinís)
• Hungarian: őszinte (hu)
• Irish: dílis, cneasta
• Italian: sincero (it), fervido (it), zelante (it), assiduo (it)
• Japanese: 誠実な (seijitsu na)
• Khmer: ស្និទ្ធស្នាល (km) (snǝt snaal), សច្ចំ (km) (saccaŋ), ចចាកអារ៉ាក (km) (cɑcaak-aaraak)

• Korean: 진실한 (jinsilhan)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: دڵ پاک‏‎

• Lao: ຈິງໃຈ (ching chai)
• Macedonian: искрен (iskren)
• Malay: ikhlas
• Maori: tinihangakore, motuhenga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: sîncéthe m, f
• Norwegian: oppriktig
• Polish: szczery (pl) m
• Portuguese: sincero (pt) m
• Romanian: sincer (ro)
• Russian: и́скренний (ru) (ískrennij)
• Spanish: sincero (es)
• Swedish: uppriktig (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: samimi (tr), içten (tr), yürekten (tr), kalpten (tr)
• Vietnamese: thành thật (vi), thật thà (vi), ngay thật (vi), chân thành (vi), thành khẩn (vi)
• Volapük: ladöfik (vo)
• Welsh: diffuant (cy)

Further readingEdit

• sincere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sincere in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

AnagramsEdit

• cereins, ceresin, renices

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EsperantoEdit

EtymologyEdit

sincera +‎ -e

AdverbEdit

sincere

1. sincerely

AntonymsEdit

• malsincere (“insincerely”)

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

sincere f pl

1. feminine plural of sincero

AnagramsEdit

• censire, crisene, recensì, recinse, scernei, secerni

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LatinEdit

AdjectiveEdit

sincēre

1. vocative masculine singular of sincērus

ReferencesEdit

• 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

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Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

First attested in 1441, borrowed from Latin sincērus.

AdjectiveEdit

sincere m, f (plural sinceres)

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

DescendantsEdit

• English: sincere (borrowed)
• French: sincère

ReferencesEdit

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SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

sincere

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.