Where does “sincérité” come from?
sincérité (Middle French) comes from Latin sinceritas, from Latin sincerus, from Latin crescere, from Latin cresco, from Proto-Italic krēskō, from Proto-Indo-European ḱer-, from Proto-Indo-European kr̥-, from Proto-Indo-European ker- — army.
Ancestry of “sincérité”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | sinceritas | integrity, honesty; soundness, wholeness; moral... |
| 2 | Latin | sincerus | clean, pure, sound; uninjured, whole; real,... |
| 3 | Latin | crescere | present active infinitive of crēscō; to spring... |
| 4 | Latin | cresco | I increase, rise, grow, thrive; multiply,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | krēskō | — |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱer- | to grow, to make grow, to nourish; to plait,... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | kr̥- | to turn, to bend |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | ker- | army |