sermocinator
English
Etymology
Latin sermocinor (“to preach a sermon”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɜː(ɹ)ˈmɒsɪˌneɪtə(ɹ)/
Noun
sermocinator (plural sermocinators)
- (obsolete) One who makes sermons or speeches; a preacher.
- 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], OCLC 987785018:
- obstreperous Sermocinators
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References
sermocinator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Latin
Verb
sermōcinātor
- second/third-person singular future active imperative of sermōcinor
References
- “sermocinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- sermocinator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- sermocinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette