# sincere
## 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

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /sɪnˈsɪə(ɹ)/
* (General American) IPA: /sɪnˈsɪɹ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

### Adjective

sincere (comparative more sincere or sincerer, superlative most sincere or sincerest)
* Genuine; meaning what one says or does; heartfelt.
    I believe he is sincere in his offer to help.
** 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19:Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.
** 1967 June, Drake Maynard, If, volume 17, number 6, page 160:My sincerest apologies to Brother Ron Smith in the December ish.
** 2003, “The Outsider”, performed by A Perfect Circle:If you choose to pull the trigger, should your drama prove sincere Do it somewhere far away from here
* Meant truly or earnestly.
    She gave it a sincere if misguided effort.
** 1996, Macy Nulman, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Prayer, page 161:The message that through sincere teshuvah and resolution, light and gladness can be achieved by all, is most fitting for the opening of the Yom Kippur service.
* (archaic) clean; pure

#### Synonyms

* earnest

#### Antonyms

* insincere

#### Related terms

* cereal
* Ceres
* crescent
* sincerity
* sincereness

#### Further reading

* “sincere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* “sincere”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
* “sincere”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
* sincere in Britannica Dictionary
* sincere in Macmillan Collocations Dictionary
* sincere in Ozdic collocation dictionary
* sincere in WordReference English Collocations

### Anagrams

* cereins, ceresin, cerines, renices

## Esperanto
### Etymology

sincera +‎ -e

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [sinˈt͡sere]
* Rhymes: -ere
* Hyphenation: sin‧ce‧re

### Adverb

sincere
* sincerely

#### Antonyms

* malsincere (“insincerely”)

## Italian
### Adjective

sincere f pl
* feminine plural of sincero

### Anagrams

* censire, crisene, recensì, recinse, scernei, secerni

## Latin
### Etymology 1
#### Adverb

sincērē (not comparable)
* 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
* 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)
* sincere (genuinely meaning what one says or does)

#### Descendants

* French: sincère
* → English: sincere

### References

* ↑ Etymology and history of “sincère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Spanish
### Verb

sincere
* inflection of sincerar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative