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Latin
Etymology
From sermō (“speech, conversation”) + -cinor, a suffix generally thought to derive from canō (“to sing; to recite”). Compare Latin ratiōcinor and vāticinor. According to Gellius, this word is a corruption of sermōnor which displaced its original.
Pronunciation
Verb
sermōcinor (present infinitive sermōcinārī, perfect active sermōcinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent
- to talk, parley, converse, commune, discourse
Conjugation
References
- “sermocinor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sermocinor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sermocinor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.