sermon

See also: Sermon and sermón

English

Alternative forms

• sarmon (dialectal)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɜːmən/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɝmən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

Noun

sermon (plural sermons)

1. 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.

2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

Derived terms

• sermonette

 

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Serrano root sermon- not found

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) (kʻaroz)
• Azerbaijani: vəz, xütbə (az)
• Bashkir: хөтбә (xötbə)
• 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／讲道 (zh) (jiǎngdào), 讲道 (zh) (jiǎngdào), 布道 (zh) (bùdào), 說教／说教 (zh) (shuōjiào), 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 (uağyz)
• Korean: 설교 (ko) (seolgyo)
• Kyrgyz: үгүт (ky) (ügüt), кутпа (kutpa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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 (th) (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) (kʻaroz)
• Catalan: sermó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 說教／说教 (zh) (shuōjiào), 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)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)

1. (poetic, obsolete) To discourse to or of, as in a sermon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

2. (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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

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French

Etymology

Latin sermō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/

• Audio:

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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

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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

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Old French

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sermō.

Noun

sermon oblique singular, 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
    • 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