sermon

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.

• sarmon (dialectal)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɜː.mən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɝ.mən/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)mən

sermon (plural sermons)

1. 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.

2. A lengthy speech of reproval.

From Middle English sermonen, from Old French sermoner, from sermon (see above).

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.
   • 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

2. (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.

• “sermon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

Inherited from Old French sermon, from Latin sermōnem.

• IPA^(key): /sɛʁ.mɔ̃/

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sermon m (plural sermons)

1. sermon (religious speech)
2. sermon (lengthy reproval)

• “sermon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mornes, normes

From Anglo-Norman sermun.

sermon

1. Alternative form of sermoun

From Old French sermoner.

sermon

1. Alternative form of sermonen

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

Learned borrowing from Latin sermō, sermōnem.

sermon oblique singular, m (oblique plural sermons, nominative singular sermons, nominative plural sermon)

1. sermon (religious)

• Anglo-Norman: sermun
  • → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
    • English: sermon, sarmon
    • Scots: sermon
• Bourguignon: sarmon
• French: sermon
• Walloon: siermon

• 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

Borrowed from Spanish sermón, from Latin sermōnem.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /seɾˈmon/ [sɛɾˈmon], /ˈseɾmon/ [ˈsɛɾ.mon]
• Rhymes: -on, -eɾmon
• Syllabification: ser‧mon

sermón or sermon (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜇ᜔ᜋᜓᜈ᜔)

1. sermon (especially by a priest)
2. moral lecture

   Synonyms: aral, pangaral, pangangaral

3. (colloquial) long scolding (especially by a parent or superior)

• “sermon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018