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Definition of summa in English: summanounPlural summaeˈsʌməˈsʊməˈso͝omə archaic A summary of a subject. 〈主古〉（学科的）总结 the Wake is a summa of Joyce's microtextual practice Example sentencesExamples - In this light, the final series of kilims stands as a summa, dense and comprehensive in its references but, perhaps unavoidably, less agile, less beguiling than the individual works whose many themes it subsumes.
- Work as distraction - that is the summa of Voltaire's wisdom.
- Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa.
- His last major paper - ‘Classicism’, published or delivered in 1960, not long before his death - was his summa or summing up of a lifetime of reflection and argument.
- This ‘work of my life,’ whose preface had to be concluded only ten years later at Potsdam, was, to a certain degree, the summa he had proposed himself to write, the conclusion of his activities and his knowledge.
Synonyms synopsis, precis, résumé, abstract, abridgement, digest, compendium, condensation, encapsulation, abbreviated version
OriginEarly 18th century: from Latin, literally 'sum total' (a sense reflected in Middle English). Rhymesbummer, comer, drummer, hummer, midsummer, mummer, plumber, rummer, strummer, summer Definition of summa in US English: summanounˈso͝omə archaic A summary of a subject. 〈主古〉（学科的）总结 the Wake is a summa of Joyce's microtextual practice Example sentencesExamples - His last major paper - ‘Classicism’, published or delivered in 1960, not long before his death - was his summa or summing up of a lifetime of reflection and argument.
- This ‘work of my life,’ whose preface had to be concluded only ten years later at Potsdam, was, to a certain degree, the summa he had proposed himself to write, the conclusion of his activities and his knowledge.
- Work as distraction - that is the summa of Voltaire's wisdom.
- Even the inquisitorial bishops and curia officials granted that he had written a virtual summa.
- In this light, the final series of kilims stands as a summa, dense and comprehensive in its references but, perhaps unavoidably, less agile, less beguiling than the individual works whose many themes it subsumes.
Synonyms synopsis, precis, résumé, abstract, abridgement, digest, compendium, condensation, encapsulation, abbreviated version
OriginEarly 18th century: from Latin, literally ‘sum total’ (a sense reflected in Middle English). |