sinner
English
/ˈsɪnɚ/
noun
Definitions
- A person who sins or has sinned.
- A person who sins or has sinned by the action or identity indicated or previously mentioned
- (theology) An unregenerate person.
- (figuratively, by extension) A person with negative qualities; one who does bad things.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English synnere inherited from Old English *synġere inherited from Proto-Germanic *sundārijaz (sinner) suffix from English sin.
Origin
English
sin
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- arcsin English
- nonsinner English
- outsin English
- sin English
- sin-ridden English
- sinful English
- sinhound English
- sinless English
- sinlike English
- sinneress English
- sinnership English
- sinnest English
- sinneth English
- sinny English
- unsin English
- Rotlichtsünder German
- Sünde German
- Sünder German
- Sünderin German
- dopingzondaar Dutch, Flemish
- zondaar Dutch, Flemish
- zondares Dutch, Flemish
- zonde Dutch, Flemish
- *sundārijaz Proto-Germanic
- synda Swedish
- syndare Swedish
- *synġere Old English
- sinne Middle English
- synnere Middle English
- sondâer Middle Dutch
- suntāri Old High German
- sondaar Afrikaans
- sünder Middle High German
- *sundari Old Saxon
- *sendere Old Frisian
- Säände Saterland Frisian
- Säänder Saterland Frisian