Other forms: sermons
A sermon is a talk given to a congregation about belief and conduct. Preach a sermon, a long sermon, the Sunday sermon.
The Sermon on the Mount is the most quoted passage in Christian teaching. Outside church the word is a complaint — nobody wants a sermon — and it always means being lectured about conduct. The Latin sermo simply means a talk or conversation.
1nounsermonA talk given to a congregation about belief and conduct.
“The priest's sermon on Sunday was about forgiving your enemies.”
sermon is a talk.
Latin sermo means talk or conversation, from a root meaning to join or string together words.
Proto-Indo-European
*ser- (bind)
Proto-Indo-European
*sermō
Latin
sermō
Old French
sermon
Anglo-Norman
sermun
Middle English
sermoun
English, today
sermon
Built from
From Middle English sermoun, from Anglo-Norman sermun and/or Old French sermon, from Latin sermō, from Proto-Indo-European sermō, from ser- (“to bind”) + -mō. Displaced native Old English wordpredicung, literally word + preaching.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA