sermon

See also: Sermon and sermón

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

Alternative forms

• sarmon (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.mən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.mən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

Noun

sermon (plural sermons)

1. 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 4293071:

     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.

2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

Derived terms

• sermonette
• sermonic
• sermonical
• sermonize

 

Translations

religious discourse

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Albanian: predikim (sq) m
• Arabic: مَوْعِظَة‎ f (mawʕiẓa), خُطْبَة‎ f (ḵuṭba), وَعْظ‎ m (waʕẓ)
• Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
• Azerbaijani: vəz, xütbə (az)
• Bashkir: хөтбә (xötbä)
• Belarusian: каза́нне n (kazánnje), ка́зань f (kázanʹ), про́паведзь f (própavjedzʹ)
• Bengali: খুতবা (khutoba), ওয়াজ (waz)
• Bulgarian: про́повед (bg) f (própoved)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: sermó (ca) m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 講道／讲道 (zh) (jiǎngdào), 布道 (zh) (bùdào), 說教／说教 (zh) (shuōjiào)

• Cornish: pregoth m
• Czech: kázání (cs) n
• Danish: prædiken c
• Dutch: preek (nl) c
• Esperanto: prediko
• Estonian: jutlus
• Finnish: saarna (fi)
• French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m
• Galician: sermón m
• Georgian: ქადაგება (kadageba)
• German: Predigt (de) f
• Greek: κήρυγμα (el) f (kírygma)
• Hebrew: דְּרָשָׁה‎, הַטָּפָה‎
• Hindi: उपदेश (hi) m (updeś), प्रवचन (hi) m (pravcan)
• Hungarian: prédikáció, szentbeszéd (hu)
• Icelandic: predikun f
• Ido: prediko (io)
• Indonesian: khotbah (id)
• Irish: seanmóir f

  Old Irish: precept f

• Italian: sermone (it) m, predica (it) f
• Japanese: 説教 (ja) (せっきょう, sekkyō)
• Kazakh: уағыз (uağyz)
• Khmer: ទេសនា (km) (teisaʼnaa)
• Korean: 설교(說敎) (ko) (seolgyo)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: weiz (ku), xutbe (ku)

• Kyrgyz: үгүт (ky) (ügüt), кутпа (kutpa)
• Lao: ເທດ (thēt), ເທສະນາ (thē sa nā)
• Latvian: sprediķis (lv) m
• Lithuanian: pamokslas m
• Macedonian: про́повед f (própoved), сло́во (mk) n (slóvo)
• Malay: khutbah, khotbah
• Manx: sharmane f
• Maori: kauwhau
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: preken m

  Nynorsk: preike f

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: проповѣдь f (propovědĭ)

• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Pashto: موعظه‎ f (mo'eza), وعظ‎ m (wa'z), خطبه‎ (ps) f (xotba)
• Persian: موعظه‎ (fa) (mow'eze), خطابه‎ (fa) (xetâbe), وعظ‎ (fa) (va'z), خطبه‎ (fa) (xotbe)
• Plautdietsch: Prädicht f
• Polish: kazanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
• Romanian: predică (ro) f, propovedanie (ro) f, cazanie (ro) f
• Russian: про́поведь (ru) f (própovedʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: searmon m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: про̏пове̄д f, про̏повије̄д f

  Roman: prȍpovēd (sh) f, prȍpovijēd (sh) f

• Slovak: kázanie n, kázeň f
• Slovene: pridiga (sl) f
• Spanish: sermón (es)
• Swahili: hotuba (sw), mahubiri
• Swedish: predikan (sv) c, betraktelse (sv) c
• Tajik: мавъиза (mavʾiza), ваъз (vaʾz), хутба (xutba)
• Tatar: хөтбә (tt) (xötbä)
• Thai: เทศน์ (th) (têet), เทศนา (th) (têet-sà-nǎa)
• Turkish: vaaz (tr), hutbe (tr)
• Turkmen: wagyz
• Ukrainian: про́повідь f (própovidʹ), каза́ння (uk) n (kazánnja)
• Urdu: وعظ‎ (va'z), خطبہ‎ f (xutba)
• Uyghur: نەسىھەت‎ (nesihet), خۇتبە‎ (xutbe)
• Uzbek: vaʼz (uz), xutba (uz)
• Vietnamese: thuyết giáo (vi)
• Walloon: siermon (wa) m, pretchmint (wa) m, pretchaedje (wa) m
• Welsh: pregeth (cy) f

speech of reproval

• Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} конско (bg) n (konsko)
• Catalan: sermó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 說教／说教 (zh) (shuōjiào)

• Esperanto: admono
• Finnish: saarna (fi)
• French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m
• Galician: sermón m
• German: Predigt (de) f, Moralpredigt (de) f, Strafpredigt (de) f
• Greek: επίπληξη (el) f (epíplixi)

  Ancient: ἐπίπληξις f (epíplēxis)

• Italian: sermone (it) m, predica (it) f, arringa (it) f
• Polish: kazanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: sermão (pt) m
• Romanian: predică (ro) f
• Russian: поуче́ние (ru) n (poučénije), нота́ция (ru) f (notácija), про́поведь (ru) f (própovedʹ), нравоуче́ние (ru) n (nravoučénije)
• Spanish: sermón (es) m
• Swedish: förmaning (sv) c, straffpredikan c, moralpredikan c
• Turkish: vaaz (tr), nutuk (tr)
• Walloon: siermon (wa) m

Etymology 2

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

Verb

sermon (third-person singular simple present sermons, present participle sermoning, simple past and past participle sermoned)

2. (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

3. (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 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:

     Come, sermon me no further.

Derived terms

• sermoner
• sermoning

 

References

• sermon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (bind)‎ (0 c, 23 e)

Anagrams

• Menors, Merson, merons, moners, mornes, somner

French

Etymology

From Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

sermon m (plural sermons)

1. sermon (religious speech)
2. sermon (lengthy reproval)

Further reading

• “sermon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• mornes, normes

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman sermun.

Noun

sermon

1. Alternative form of sermoun

Etymology 2

From Old French sermoner.

Verb

sermon

1. Alternative form of sermonen

Old French

Alternative forms

• sermoun (Anglo-Norman)
• sermun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

Noun

sermon m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)

1. sermon (religious)

Descendants

• Anglo-Norman: sermun
  • → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
    • English: sermon, sarmon
    • Scots: sermon
• Bourguignon: sarmon
• French: sermon
• Walloon: siermon

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (sermon, supplement)
• sermun on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish sermón.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ser‧mon
• IPA^(key): /seɾˈmon/, [seɾˈmon]
• IPA^(key): /ˈseɾmon/, [ˈseɾ.mon]

Noun

sermón or sermon

1. sermon (especially by a priest)
2. moral lecture

   Synonyms: pangaral, pangangaral

3. (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)

Derived terms

• isermon
• magsermon
• pagsermunan
• sermunan