summa

From Latin summa.

summa (plural summas or summae)

1. A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.

• Mumas, maums, ummas

From Latin summa.

summa

1. sum (result of addition)
2. amount (especially of money)

• adjectives: -summainen, summaton
• verbs: summata, summautua
• idioms: osiensa summa

• ammus, sammu, samum

From Latin summa (“sum, summary, total”).

• Rhymes: -ʏmːa

summa f (genitive singular summu, nominative plural summur)

1. (arithmetic) a sum; (a quantity obtained by addition or aggregation)

From summus, superlative of superus (“upper, higher”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsum.ma/, [ˈsʊm.ma]

summa f (genitive summae); first declension

1. top, summit, highest point or place
2. the principal or main thing
3. (also mathematics) sum, summary, total
4. (Medieval) the quarter, an English unit of weight and volume equal to ¼ ton or tun or 8 bushels
   • c. 1300, Tractatus de Ponderibus et Mensuris

     Saccus lane debet ponderare viginti & octo petras & solebat ponderare unam summam frumenti

     A sack of wool ought to weigh twenty & eight stone & is accustomed to weigh one quarter of wheat.

First declension.

• superus

summa

1. nominative feminine singular of summus
2. nominative neuter plural of summus
3. accusative neuter plural of summus
4. vocative feminine singular of summus
5. vocative neuter plural of summus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsum.maː/, [ˈsʊm.maː]

summā

1. ablative singular of summa

summā

1. ablative feminine singular of summus

From summum (“highest place”), from summus, superlative of superus (“upper, higher”)

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsum.ma/, [ˈsʊm.ma]

summa

1. nominative plural of summum
2. accusative plural of summum
3. vocative plural of summum

• summa in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• summa in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• summa in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• summa in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live to a very great age: ad summam senectutem pervenire
    
  • to be reduced to (abject) poverty: ad egestatem, ad inopiam (summam omnium rerum) redigi
    
  • to attain to the highest eminence: ad summam auctoritatem pervenire
    
  • to become famous, distinguish oneself: gloriam colligere, in summam gloriam venire
    
  • to dwell only on the main points: res summas attingere
    
  • to be plunged into the depths of despair: ad (summam) desperationem pervenire, adduci (B. C. 2. 42)
    
  • to rouse a person's expectation, curiosity to the highest pitch: aliquem in summam exspectationem adducere (Tusc. 1. 17. 39)
    
  • to compute the total of anything: summam facere alicuius rei
    
  • to elevate to the highest dignity: aliquem ad summam dignitatem perducere (B. G. 7. 39)
    
  • to confer supreme power on a person: imperium, rerum summam deferre alicui
    
  • to be commander-in-chief: imperii summam tenere (Rep. 2. 28)
    
  • to be commander-in-chief: imperii summae praeesse
    
  • to appoint some one commander-in-chief: imperii summam deferre alicui or ad aliquem, tradere alicui
    
  • to sum up..: ut eorum, quae dixi, summam faciam
    
  • (ambiguous) the surface of the water: summa aqua
    
  • (ambiguous) in the height of summer, depth of winter: summa aestate, hieme
    
  • (ambiguous) to be entirely destitute; to be a beggar: in summa egestate or mendicitate esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be bound by the closest ties of friendship: artissimo amicitiae vinculo or summa familiaritate cum aliquo coniunctum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in a dignified position: dignitas est summa in aliquo
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in a dignified position: summa dignitate praeditum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to praise, extol, commend a person: (maximis, summis) laudibus efferre aliquem or aliquid
    
  • (ambiguous) to have reached the highest pinnacle of eminence: summa gloria florere
    
  • (ambiguous) ideal perfection: absolutio et perfectio (not summa perfectio)
    
  • (ambiguous) the learned men are most unanimous in..: summa est virorum doctissimorum consensio (opp. dissensio)
    
  • (ambiguous) to honour the gods with all due ceremonial (very devoutly): deum rite (summa religione) colere
    
  • (ambiguous) to stand in very intimate relations to some one: summa necessitudine aliquem contingere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in severe pecuniary straits: in summa difficultate nummaria versari (Verr. 2. 28. 69)
    
  • (ambiguous) the welfare of the state: summa res publica (or summa rei publicae)
    
  • (ambiguous) to proceed against some one with the utmost rigour of the law; to strain the law in one's favour: summo iure agere cum aliquo (cf. summum ius, summa iniuria)
    
  • (ambiguous) the command-in-chief: summa belli, imperii (B. G. 2. 4. 7)
    
  • (ambiguous) deep peace: summa pax
    

• summet

summa

1. simple past and past participle of summe

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summa c

1. Sum, result of addition.