# sermo
## Italian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin sermō.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsɛr.mo/
* Rhymes: -ɛrmo
* Hyphenation: sèr‧mo

### Noun

sermo m (plural sermi)
* (archaic) Alternative form of sermone
** 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell]‎, lines 136–138; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Quando ’l maestro fu sovr’esso fermo, / disse: «Chi fosti, che per tante punte / soffi con sangue doloroso sermo?».When near him had the Master stopped, he said: “Who wast thou, that through so many wounds art blowing out with blood thy painful speech?”

### Anagrams

* merso, morse

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* serm. (abbreviation)

### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *sermō (with stem sermōn- for *sermin-, from the nominative case), from Proto-Indo-European *sérmn̥ and/or Proto-Indo-European *sérmō, from *ser- (“to bind”) + *-mō. Related to serō (“to join”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈser.moː/, [ˈs̠ɛrmoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈser.mo/, [ˈsɛrmo]

### Noun

sermō m (genitive sermōnis); third declension
* a conversation, discussion
    Synonyms: alloquium, colloquium, parlamentum
** c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15:Horum te mori nemo coget, omnes docebunt; horum nemo annos tuos conteret, suos tibi contribuet; nullius ex his sermo periculosus erit, nullius amicitia capitalis, nullius sumptuosa obseruatio.No one of these will force you to die, but all will teach you how to die; no one of these will wear out your years, but each will add his own years to yours; conversations with no one of these will bring you peril, the friendship of none will endanger your life, the courting of none will tax your purse.
* a rumor, diction, speech, talk, discourse
* a language, manner of speaking
* a sermon

#### Declension

Third-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* sermōcinor
* lupus in sermōne

#### Descendants

* → Catalan: sermó
* → Italian: sermone
* → Middle Irish: sermóin
** Irish: seanmóir
** Manx: sharmane
** Scottish Gaelic: searmon
* → Old French: sermon
** Anglo-Norman: sermun
*** → Middle English: sermoun, sermon, sermun, sarmoun, sarmoune, sermown, sermond, sermone
**** English: sermon, sarmon (dialectal)
**** Scots: sermon
** Bourguignon: sarmon
** French: sermon
** Walloon: siermon
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: sermon
** Portuguese: sermão
* → Sicilian: sirmuni
* → Spanish: sermón

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “serō, -ere 2 (> Derivatives > (3) sermō)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 557-8

### Further reading

* “sermo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sermo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* sermo 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)
* sermo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. report says; people say: rumor, fama, sermo est or manat to be a subject for gossip: in sermonem hominum venire pathetic address; emotional language: contentio (opp. sermo) (Off. 2. 48) to adopt the language of everyday life: accedere ad cotidiani sermonis genus a mistake, solecism: vitium orationis, sermonis or simply vitium native tongue; vernacular: sermo patrius (Fin. 1. 2. 4) to usage of language: consuetudo sermonis, loquendi the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: cotidiani sermonis usus the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: communis sermonis consuetudo the ordinary usage of language, everyday speech: sermo familiaris et cotidianus the expression is not in accordance with Latin usage: aliquid a consuetudine sermonis latini abhorret, alienum est incorrect usage: consuetudo vitiosa et corrupta (opp. pura et incorrupta) sermonis pure, correct Latin: incorrupta latini sermonis integritas (Brut. 35. 132) good Latin: sermo latinus (opp. sermo parum latinus) (cf. sect. VII. 2., note For the use of adverbs...) to translate from Greek into Latin: aliquid e graeco in latinum (sermonem) convertere, vertere, transferre to render something into Latin: aliquid (graeca) latine reddere or sermone latino interpretari an old proverb which every one knows: proverbium vetustate or sermone tritum (vid. sect. II. 3, note tritus...) to enter into conversation with some one: sermonem conferre, instituere, ordiri cum aliquo to enter into conversation with some one: se dare in sermonem cum aliquo to turn the conversation on to a certain subject: sermonem inferre de aliqua re to talk of a subject which was then the common topic of conversation: in eum sermonem incidere, qui tum fere multis erat in ore the conversation turned on..: sermo incidit de aliqua re to begin a conversation: in sermonem ingredi the conversation began with..: sermo ortus est ab aliqua re to turn the conversation to another topic: sermonem alio transferre to break off in the middle of the conversation: medium sermonem abrumpere (Verg. Aen. 4. 388) to prolong a conversation far into the night: sermonem producere in multam noctem (Rep. 6. 10. 10) to converse, talk with a person on a subject: sermonem habere cum aliquo de aliqua re (De Am. 1. 3) the conversation began in this way: hinc sermo ductus est the conversation began in this way: sermo inductus a tali exordio a long conversation: multus sermo conversational language: sermo cotidianus, or simply sermo
* sermo in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
* “sermo”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

### Anagrams

* mōrēs