sermon

See also: Sermon and sermón

English

Alternative forms

sarmon (dialectal)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːmən/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝmən/
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. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
  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

sermonette

Related terms

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Translations

religious discourse

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Albanian: predikim (sq) m
Arabic: مَوْعِظَة‎ f (mawʿiẓa), خُطْبَة‎ f (ḵuṭba), وَعْظ‎ m (waʿẓ)
Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
Azerbaijani: vəz, xütbə (az)
Bashkir: хөтбә (xötbä)
Belarusian: каза́нне n (kazánnje), ка́зань f (kázanʹ), про́паведзь f (própavjedzʹ)
Bulgarian: про́повед (bg) f (própoved)
Catalan: sermó (ca) m
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 講道 (zh), 讲道 (zh) (jiǎngdào), 布道 (zh) (bùdào), 說教 (zh), 说教 (zh) (shuōjiào)
Cornish: pregoth m
Czech: kázání 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), ख़ुतबा f (xutbā)
Hungarian: 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 (せっきょう, sekkyō)
Kazakh: уағыз (wağız)
Korean: 설교 (ko) (seolgyo)
Kyrgyz: үгүт (ky) (ügüt), кутпа (kutpa)

Lao: ເທດ (thēt)
Latvian: sprediķis (lv) m
Lithuanian: pamokslas m
Macedonian: проповед f (propoved)
Malay: khutbah, khotbah
Manx: sharmane f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: preken m

Nynorsk: preike f
Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
Pashto: موعظه‎ f (mo'ezá), وعظ‎ m (wa'z), خطبه‎ (ps) f (xotbá)
Persian: موعظه‎ (fa) (mow'eze), خطابه‎ (fa) (xetâbe), وعظ‎ (fa) (va'z), خطبه‎ (fa) (xotbe)
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)
Swedish: predikan (sv) c, betraktelse (sv) c
Tajik: мавъиза (mavʾiza), ваъз (vaʾz), хутба (xutba)
Tatar: хөтбә (tt) (xötbä)
Thai: เทศน์ (têet)
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: vaz, vaʻz, xutba (uz)
Vietnamese: thuyết giáo (vi)
Walloon: siermon (wa) m, pretchmint (wa) m, pretchaedje (wa) m
Welsh: pregeth f

speech of reproval

Armenian: քարոզ (hy) (kʿaroz)
Catalan: sermó (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 說教 (zh), 说教 (zh) (shuōjiào)
Esperanto: admono
Finnish: saarna (fi)
French: sermon (fr) m, prêche (fr) m
Galician: sermón m
German: Predigt (de) f, Moralpredigt 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

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.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
(poetic, obsolete) To tutor; to lecture.
- 1607, William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens, II. ii. 177:
  Come, sermon me no further.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sermon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Menors, Merson, merons, moners, mornes, somner

French

Etymology

Latin sermō.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/
Audio (file)

Noun

sermon m (plural sermons)

sermon (religious speech)
sermon (lengthy reproval)

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

Borrowed from Latin sermō.

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 (dialectal sarmon)
  - Scots: sermon
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

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sermon

English

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Noun

Derived terms

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French

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Middle English

Etymology 1

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Old French

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