sermon
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem, from Proto-Indo-European *sermō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō.
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editsermon (plural sermons)
- Religious discourse; a written or spoken address on a religious or moral matter.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
- A lengthy speech of reproval.
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Etymology 2
editFrom Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).
Verb
editsermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)
- (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.
- January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh
- To some I know this methode will seem displeasaunt, which had rather have good discipline delivered plainly in way of precepts, or sermoned at large, as they use, then thus clowdily enwrapped in allegorical devises
- January 23 1583, Edmund Spenser, letter to Walter Raleigh
- (poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
- c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:
- Come, sermon me no further.
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- “sermon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French sermon, from Latin sermōnem.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsermon m (plural sermons)
Further reading
edit- “sermon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Anglo-Norman sermun.
Noun
editsermon
- Alternative form of sermoun
Etymology 2
editFrom Old French sermoner.
Verb
editsermon
- Alternative form of sermonen
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.
Noun
editsermon oblique singular, m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)
- sermon (religious)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (sermon, supplement)
- sermun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Spanish sermón, from Latin sermōnem.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog)
- Syllabification: ser‧mon
Noun
editsermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
- sermon (especially by a priest)
- moral lecture
- Synonyms: aral, pangaral, pangangaral
- (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)
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editSee also
editFurther reading
edit- “sermon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (bind)
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