somme

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From Old French somme, sume, borrowed from Latin summa.

somme f (plural sommes)

1. sum; total

   Il a reçu une somme de 300 euros. He received a sum of 300 euros.

• sommer

An alteration of Latin somnus, to assimilate with sommeil.

somme m (plural sommes)

1. nap; doze; quick sleep

From Old French some, from Late Latin sauma, alteration of Latin sagma (“packsaddle”), from Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma). Compare Occitan sauma, Italian soma and salma (“corpse”).

somme f (plural sommes)

1. packsaddle

• bête de somme

Inflected forms.

somme

1. first-person singular present indicative of sommer
2. third-person singular present indicative of sommer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of sommer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of sommer
5. second-person singular imperative of sommer

• mômes

• “somme” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

somme f pl

1. feminine plural of sommo

somme f

1. plural of somma

somme

1. some

somme

1. some (plural of som)

From Latin somnus.

somme m

1. sleep