I. (Acc. to sermo, I. B. 3.) Common talk, tittletattle, report, rumor (rare but class.): “urbani sermunculi,” Cic. Deiot. 12, 33: “sermunculis fabellisque duci,” Plin. Ep. 5, 8, 4: “sermunculum omnem aut restinxerit aut sedarit,” Cic. Att. 13, 10, 3: “non deterreor sermunculis istorum,” Plin. Ep. 7, 17, 14.—
II. A little discourse (late Lat.), Hier. Ep. 32, 1.