At Constantinople the case was better; “viri eruditi sunt nonnulli, et culti mores, et sermo etiam nitidus.
Celticus sermo was the patois of Gaul, which, having once been Gallia Celtica, he still called such.
Potts’ ‘Aids to Latin Prose,’ and from Professor Postgate’s Sermo Latinus.
I know that you are the estis: sed quaeritis me children of Abraham: but you interficere, quiasermo meus seek to kill me, because my non capit in vobis.
If he called them gods, to quos sermo Dei factus est, et whom the word of God was non potest solvi scriptura: spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36.
The first book with any attempt at a title-page is the Sermo ad Populum Predicabilis, printed at Cologne in 1470 by Arnold Therhoernen, but a full title-page was not generally adopted till fifty years later.
From the necessity of these consultations with bishops and experts it is easy to understand the origin of the "Sermo generalis," or auto de fé.
Raro sermo illis, et magna libido tacendi=--They seldom speak, and have a great conceit of holding their tongues.
He also wrote a Liber exhortatorius ad pœnitentiam and a Sermo de baptismo.
He wrote a useful history of the first crusade, and a work important in its day entitled, Liber quo ordine sermofieri debeat.
His style is still pure, and is certainly very charming; but even Livy departs somewhat from the dignity and beauty of the sermo urbanus, the Latin of Cicero and Caesar.
In the hands of Spaniards like the Senecas, Latin could hardly remain the city speech, sermo urbanus, of the time of Cicero.
Charters and his associates are not, of course, presented in full, but his numerous specimens must strike familiar chords in every ear that is alert to the sounds and ways of the /sermo vulgus/.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sermo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
