sincerus
Latin
Alternative forms
- syncerus (medieval)
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *senkairos, from Proto-Indo-European *sem- (compare Latin simplex, and Sanskrit सम (sama, “whole, together”)) and *ḱer- (“grow”) (compare Sanskrit किर् (kir, “pour out”)). According to De Vaan, the second part of the compound derives from the unattested adjective *caerus found in the first part of caerimōnia.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /sinˈkeː.rus/, [s̠ɪŋˈkeːrʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sinˈt͡ʃe.rus/, [sin̠ʲˈt͡ʃɛːrus]
Adjective
sincērus (feminine sincēra, neuter sincērum, comparative sincērior, adverb sincērē or sincēriter); first/second-declension adjective
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | sincērus | sincēra | sincērum | sincērī | sincērae | sincēra | |
| Genitive | sincērī | sincērae | sincērī | sincērōrum | sincērārum | sincērōrum | |
| Dative | sincērō | sincērō | sincērīs | ||||
| Accusative | sincērum | sincēram | sincērum | sincērōs | sincērās | sincēra | |
| Ablative | sincērō | sincērā | sincērō | sincērīs | |||
| Vocative | sincēre | sincēra | sincērum | sincērī | sincērae | sincēra | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “sincerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sincerus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sincerus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sincērus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 640
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