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honorable
English
Alternative forms
- honble (obsolete)
- Honorable (honorific)
- (British spelling:) honourable, Honourable (honorific)
Etymology
From Old French honorable, honurable, from Latin hon?r?bilis, from hon?r? (“I honour”); cognate with Italian onorabile, Spanish honorable. Surface analysis is honor +? -able.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
- (General American) enPR: ?n??r?bl, ?n?r?bl, IPA(key): /??n???bl?/, /??n??bl?/
- Hyphenation: hon?or?able, honor?able
Adjective
honorable (comparative more honorable, superlative most honorable) (American spelling)
- Worthy of respect; respectable.
- (politics) A courtesy title, given in Britain and the Commonwealth to a cabinet minister, minister of state, or senator, and in the United States to the president, vice president, congresspeople, state governors and legislators, and mayors.
Synonyms
- venerable
- noble
- Hon'ble
- Hon.
Antonyms
- despicable
- contemptible
- mean
Derived terms
- Hon., Hon'ble, Honourable
- honorably, honourably
- (politics): right honorable, right honourable
Translations
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin hon?r?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic) IPA(key): /o.no??a.bl?/
- (Central) IPA(key): /u.nu??a.bl?/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /o.no??a.ble/
Adjective
honorable (masculine and feminine plural honorables)
- honorable
Derived terms
- honorablement
Further reading
- “honorable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “honorable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “honorable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “honorable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
Etymology
From Old French [Term?], borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis.
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /?.n?.?abl/
Adjective
honorable (plural honorables)
- honorable
Derived terms
- faire amende honorable
- hon.
- très honorable
Related terms
- honneur
Further reading
- “honorable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Alternative forms
- honorábel
Etymology
From Latin hon?r?bilis.
Adjective
honorable m or f (plural honorables)
- honorable
Related terms
- honor
- honra
Further reading
- “honorable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin hon?r?bilis. Equivalent to honor +? -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ono??able/, [o.no??a.??le]
Adjective
honorable (plural honorables)
- honorable
- Synonym: honesto
Derived terms
- honorablemente
Related terms
- honor
- honra
- honrar
Further reading
- “honorable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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sincere
English
Etymology
From Middle French sincere, from Latin sincerus (“genuine”), from Proto-Indo-European *sin- + *?er- (“grow”), from which also Ceres (“goddess of harvest”) from which English cereal.
Unrelated to sine (“without”) cera (“wax”) (folk etymology); see Wikipedia discussion.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?n?s??(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
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.
- Meant truly or earnestly.
- She gave it a sincere, if misguided effort.
- (archaic) clean; pure
Synonyms
- earnest
Antonyms
- insincere
Related terms
- cereal
- Ceres
- crescent
- sincerity
- sincereness
Translations
Further reading
- sincere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sincere in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- cereins, ceresin, cerines, renices
Esperanto
Etymology
sincera +? -e
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sin?t?sere/
- Hyphenation: sin?ce?re
- Rhymes: -ere
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
sinc?r? (not comparable)
- uprightly, honestly, frankly, sincerely
- 1st century, Catullus, Poem 109
- Di magni, facite ut vere promittere possit // atque id sincere dicat ex animo
- 1st century, Catullus, Poem 109
Etymology 2
Adjective
sinc?re
- vocative masculine singular of sinc?rus
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 sinc?rus.
Adjective
sincere m or f (plural sinceres)
- sincere (genuinely meaning what one says or does)
Descendants
- ? English: sincere
- French: sincère
References
Spanish
Verb
sincere
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of sincerarse.
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