Sins
/sɪnz/noun
Plural of sin: an immoral act considered a violation of divine law.
Did you know?In Old English, *synn* was a moral-religious term tied to wrongdoing before God, and its deeper ancestry may connect to an older Indo-European idea of “being guilty” or “being true/real” depending on the reconstruction, which is why its history is debated but ancient.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
synn
“sin, offense, guilt”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*sunþjo-
“sin, guilt, offense”
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*es-
“to be, to exist”
Middle English
ME
sin
“sin, transgression against divine law”
Modern English
English
sin / sins
“an offense against divine law; plural offenses”