sermon
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From 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.
Alternative forms edit
- sarmon (dialectal)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sermon (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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
religious discourse
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speech of reproval
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Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).
Verb edit
sermon (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 edit
References edit
- “sermon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Related terms edit
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French sermon, from Latin sermōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sermon m (plural sermons)
Further reading edit
- “sermon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Anglo-Norman sermun.
Noun edit
sermon
- Alternative form of sermoun
Etymology 2 edit
From Old French sermoner.
Verb edit
sermon
- Alternative form of sermonen
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.
Noun edit
sermon oblique singular, m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)
- sermon (religious)
Descendants edit
References 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 edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)
- sermon (especially by a priest)
- moral lecture
- Synonyms: pangaral, pangangaral
- (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)