English → Latin
“insincere” in Latin
blanduspleasant, agreeable; enticing, seductive, alluring; persuasivefūcōto colour, paint, dye; to embellish, dissemble, falsifyfūcōsuspainted, coloured, beautified; fake, counterfeit, spuriousfallōto deceive, beguile, trick, cheat, delude, ensnare, disappoint; to mistake, be mistaken, deceive oneself; to escape the īnfīdusuntrustworthy, incredible; disloyal, unfaithful; uncertain, unsafefallāxdeceptive, deceitful; fallacious, spuriousfraudulentusdeceitful, fraudulent; dishonest, falsedolōsuscrafty, cunning, deceitfulsubdoluscrafty, cunning, sly, subtletegōto cover; to clothe; to conceal, hide, protect
The English word insincere itself goes back to Latin sincērus, through insincerus.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
insincere
blandus (soft-spoken, etc; e.g., friend, amicus; opposed to verus amicus, Cic.): fucatus: fucosus (varnished over, as it were, to look fairer than it really is; the former of things, the latter of persons or things; vicinia non fucosa; fucosae amicitiae, Cic.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fucatus et simulatus (opposed to sincerus et verus, Cic.): falsus (false; not open-hearted): infidus (that cannot be trusted; e.g., amicus): fallax: fraudulentus: dolosus: subdolus [SYN. in DECEITFUL]: tectus: occultus (dark, reserved; entertaining some concealed purpose, etc.). (The words are found in this connection and order.) occultus et tectus (close, reserved); astutus et occultus (crafty and designing; Cic.). Insincere declarations or professions, verba sine fide jactata. How insincere you are! ut falsus es animi! (Terentianus).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for insincere?
- The usual Latin words for “insincere” are blandus, fūcō, fūcōsus; also fallō, īnfīdus, fallāx. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.