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sermōcĭnor

To talk with

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What it meant

sermōcĭnor — Lewis & Short

sermōcĭnor, ātus, 1,

I v. dep. n. [sermo].

I To talk with any one, to parley, converse, commune, discourse about any thing (rare but class.; syn. colloquor): consuetudo sermocinandi, Cic. Inv. 2, 17, 54: cum aliquo, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 52, § 138: psittaci etiam sermocinantes, Plin. 10, 41, 58, § 117.—Act. collat. form sermōcĭno, Isid. Orig. 1, 39, 2.—

II In partic. (acc. to sermo, I. B. 1.), to hold a literary conversation, to dispute, discuss: exquisitius sermocinari, etc., Suet. Tib. 56: pluria forte quis dixit sermocinans vir apprime doctus, Gell. 5, 21, 1.— Hence, * sermōcĭnanter, adv., in discourse or conversation: horas extrahere, Sid. Ep. 8, 6 med.

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