sinceritas

Latin

Etymology

From sincērus +‎ -tās.

Noun

sincēritās f (genitive sincēritātis); third declension

  1. integrity, honesty
  2. soundness, wholeness
  3. moral purity

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative sincēritās sincēritātēs
genitive sincēritātis sincēritātum
dative sincēritātī sincēritātibus
accusative sincēritātem sincēritātēs
ablative sincēritāte sincēritātibus
vocative sincēritās sincēritātēs

Descendants

  • Catalan: sinceritat
  • French: sincérité
  • Galician: sinceridade
  • Italian: sincerità
  • Portuguese: sinceridade
  • Spanish: sinceridad

References

  • “sinceritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sinceritas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "sinceritas", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • sinceritas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • purity of style: integritas, sinceritas orationis (not puritas)
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