"sermo" meaning in Latin

See sermo in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: [ˈsɛr.moː] [Classical-Latin], [ˈsɛr.mo] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
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”). Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*ser-|id=bind}}, {{der|la|itc-pro|*sermō}} Proto-Italic *sermō, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*sérmn̥}} Proto-Indo-European *sérmn̥, {{inh|la|ine-pro|*sérmō}} Proto-Indo-European *sérmō Head templates: {{la-noun|sermō<3>|g=m}} sermō m (genitive sermōnis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|sermō<3>}} Forms: sermō [canonical, masculine], sermōnis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], sermō [nominative, singular], sermōnēs [nominative, plural], sermōnis [genitive, singular], sermōnum [genitive, plural], sermōnī [dative, singular], sermōnibus [dative, plural], sermōnem [accusative, singular], sermōnēs [accusative, plural], sermōne [ablative, singular], sermōnibus [ablative, plural], sermō [singular, vocative], sermōnēs [plural, vocative], serm. [alternative, abbreviation]
  1. a conversation, discussion Tags: declension-3 Synonyms: alloquium, colloquium, parlamentum
    Sense id: en-sermo-la-noun-bOGifNVs
  2. a rumor, diction, speech, talk, discourse Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-sermo-la-noun-7xQBVdh9 Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Talking Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 15 33 26 26 Disambiguation of Talking: 22 39 16 23
  3. a language, manner of speaking Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-sermo-la-noun-WQrONbAQ Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 6 87 6
  4. a sermon Tags: declension-3
    Sense id: en-sermo-la-noun-8ayLm6-H
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sermōcinor, lupus in sermōne
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          "lang_code": "fr",
          "word": "sermon"
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      "lang_code": "es",
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      "name": "root"
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      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "plural"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
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        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
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        "vocative"
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      "tags": [
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      "name": "la-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
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      "synonyms": [
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          "word": "alloquium"
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        {
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        {
          "word": "parlamentum"
        }
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      "tags": [
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          "_dis": "15 33 26 26",
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "22 39 16 23",
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          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Talking",
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          "parents": [],
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          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
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      "ipa": "[ˈsɛr.moː]",
      "tags": [
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      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
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}
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    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
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    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic",
    "Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *ser- (bind)",
    "Latin terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Latin third declension nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
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              ],
              "lang": "Middle English",
              "lang_code": "enm",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "sermond"
            },
            {
              "descendants": [
                {
                  "lang": "English",
                  "lang_code": "en",
                  "word": "sermon"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "English",
                  "lang_code": "en",
                  "tags": [
                    "dialectal"
                  ],
                  "word": "sarmon"
                },
                {
                  "lang": "Scots",
                  "lang_code": "sco",
                  "word": "sermon"
                }
              ],
              "lang": "Middle English",
              "lang_code": "enm",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed"
              ],
              "word": "sermone"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Anglo-Norman",
          "lang_code": "xno",
          "word": "sermun"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Bourguignon",
          "lang_code": "roa-brg",
          "word": "sarmon"
        },
        {
          "lang": "French",
          "lang_code": "fr",
          "word": "sermon"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Walloon",
          "lang_code": "wa",
          "word": "siermon"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old French",
      "lang_code": "fro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sermon"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "lang_code": "pt",
          "word": "sermão"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Old Galician-Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "roa-opt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sermon"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Sicilian",
      "lang_code": "scn",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sirmuni"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sermón"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*ser-",
        "id": "bind"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "itc-pro",
        "3": "*sermō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Italic *sermō",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sérmn̥"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sérmn̥",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*sérmō"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *sérmō",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sermō",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnis",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnis",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnem",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōne",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnibus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sermōnēs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "serm.",
      "tags": [
        "alternative",
        "abbreviation"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sermō<3>",
        "g": "m"
      },
      "expansion": "sermō m (genitive sermōnis); third declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sermō<3>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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.",
          "ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 15",
          "text": "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.",
          "translation": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a conversation, discussion"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "conversation",
          "conversation"
        ],
        [
          "discussion",
          "discussion"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "alloquium"
        },
        {
          "word": "colloquium"
        },
        {
          "word": "parlamentum"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a rumor, diction, speech, talk, discourse"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rumor",
          "rumor"
        ],
        [
          "diction",
          "diction"
        ],
        [
          "speech",
          "speech"
        ],
        [
          "talk",
          "talk"
        ],
        [
          "discourse",
          "discourse"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a language, manner of speaking"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "language",
          "language"
        ],
        [
          "speaking",
          "speaking"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "a sermon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sermon",
          "sermon"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-3"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsɛr.moː]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈsɛr.mo]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sermo"
}

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