APM: Sincerity

[jameschoate at austin.rr.com]

http://www.british-israel.ca/are_you_sincere.htm

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=sin+cere+without+wax&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

---- Tim McDaniel <tmcd at panix.com> wrote: 
> As an aside, someone mentioned the etymology of "sincere" at the
> meeting last night.  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sincere#Etymology>
> echoes the American Heritage Dictionary and other ones:
> 
>      The Oxford English Dictionary and most scholars state that
>      sincerity from sincere is derived from the Latin sincerus meaning
>      clean, pure, sound (152535). Sincerus may have once meant "one
>      growth" (not mixed), from sin- (one) and crescere (to
>      grow). Crescere derives from "Ceres," the goddess of grain, as in
>      "cereal."[3][4]
> 
> and
> 
>      The Oxford English Dictionary states, however, that "There is no
>      probability in the old explanation from sine cera 'without wax'".
> 
> I'm not trying to show off or slam anyone, but I'm interested in urban
> legends and popular etymologies.
> 
> -- 
> Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com
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