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)
- 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.
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- A lengthy speech of reproval.
Derived terms
- sermonette
- sermonic
- sermonical
- sermonize
Translations
religious discourse
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speech of reproval
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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)
- (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 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], line 177:
- Come, sermon me no further.
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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, 22 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)
- sermon (religious speech)
- 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
- Alternative form of sermoun
Etymology 2
From Old French sermoner.
Verb
sermon
- 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)
- sermon (religious)
Descendants
- Anglo-Norman: sermun
- → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
- English: sermon, sarmon
- Scots: sermon
- → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
- Bourguignon: sarmon
- French: sermon
- Walloon: siermon
References
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish sermón.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ser‧mon
- IPA(key): /seɾˈmon/, [seɾˈmon]
- IPA(key): /ˈseɾmon/, [ˈseɾ.mon]
Noun
sermón or sermon
- sermon (especially by a priest)
- moral lecture
- Synonyms: pangaral, pangangaral
- (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)
Derived terms
- isermon
- magsermon
- pagsermunan
- sermunan