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English

Etymology

From Middle English gross (“whole, entire; flagrant, monstrous”), from Old French gros (“big, thick, large, stout”), from Late Latin grossus (“thick in diameter, coarse”), and Medieval Latin grossus (“great, big”), influenced by Old High German gr?z (“big, thick, coarse”), from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“large, great, thick, coarse grained, unrefined”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?er- (“to rub, to stroke, to grind”). Cognate with French grossier (“gross”). See also French dialectal grôt, groût (“large”) (Berry) and grô (“large”) (Burgundy), Catalan gros (“big”), Dutch groot (“big, large”), German groß (“large”), English great. More at great.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??o?s/
• Homophone: Gross
• Rhymes: -??s

Adjective

gross (comparative grosser or more gross, superlative grossest or most gross)

1. (of behaviour considered to be wrong) Highly or conspicuously offensive.

   Synonyms: serious, flagrant, shameful, appalling, egregious.

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act II, Scene 3,^[1]

     Henry IV. My gracious uncle, let me know my fault:

     On what condition stands it and wherein?

     Edmund of Langley. Even in condition of the worst degree,

     In gross rebellion and detested treason:

   • 1682, Aphra Behn, The City-Heiress, London: D. Brown et al., Act IV, Scene 1, p. 40,^[2]

     Your very faults, how gross soere, to me

     Have something pleasing in ’em.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Dublin: John Smith, Volume 3, Book 18, Chapter 10, p. 336,^[3]

     […] I thank Heaven I have had Time to reflect on my past Life, where though I cannot charge myself with any gross Villainy, yet I can discern Follies and Vices too sufficient to repent and to be ashamed of;

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 13,^[4]

     […] had his actions been what Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of every thing right could hardly have been concealed from the world;

   • 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, Chapter 6,^[5]

     […] he has been found guilty, on the clearest evidence, first, of stealing a valuable motor-car; secondly, of driving to the public danger; and, thirdly, of gross impertinence to the rural police.

2. (of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

   Synonyms: whole, entire, overall, total, aggregate

   Antonym: net

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, Scene 1,^[6]

     What is the gross sum that I owe thee?

   • 1878, Thomas Hardy, The Return of the Native, Book 6, Chapter 1,^[7]

     For a man of his habits the house and the hundred and twenty pounds a year which he had inherited from his mother were enough to supply all worldly needs. Resources do not depend upon gross amounts, but upon the proportion of spendings to takings.

   • 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, 1962, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 37,^[8]

     […] please notice that even these wretched earnings are gross earnings. On top of this there are all kinds of stoppages which are deducted from the miner’s wages every week.

3. (sciences, pathology) Seen without a microscope (usually for a tissue or an organ); at a large scale; not detailed.

   Synonym: macroscopic

   Antonym: microscopic

   • 1962, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Chapter 12, p. 190,^[9]

     We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effect and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard.

4. (slang, Canada, US) Causing disgust.

   Synonyms: gro, grody, grotty, disgusting, nasty, revolting, yucky

   • 1978, Armistead Maupin, Tales of the City, New York: Harper & Row, 1989, “Ties That Bind,” p. 293,^[10]

     Mary Ann spent her lunch hour at Hastings, picking out just the right tie for Norman. The hint might not be terribly subtle, she decided, but somebody had to do something about that gross, gravy-stained clip-on number.

   • 2002, Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex, New York: Picador, Book 3, p. 306,^[11]

     The next-door neighbor’s cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat’s. “That’s so gross!”

5. Lacking refinement in behaviour or manner; offending a standard of morality.

   Synonyms: coarse, rude, vulgar, obscene, impure

   • 1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, Act I, Scene 1, ^[12]

     Verjuice. She certainly has Talents.

     Lady Sneerwell. But her manner is gross.

   • 1874: Dodsley et al., A Select Collection of Old English Plays

     But man to know God is a difficulty, except by a mean he himself inure, which is to know God’s creatures that be: at first them that be of the grossest nature, and then [...] them that be more pure.
6. (of a product) Lacking refinement; not of high quality.

   Synonyms: coarse, rough, unrefined

   Antonym: fine

   • 1860, John Ruskin, Modern Painters, Volume 5, Part 6, Chapter 10, § 5,^[13]

     The flowers of Rubens are gross and rude […]

   • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, “Lorenzo Was Registered,” ^[14]

     He scorned my wholesome kennel fare, toothing out dainties and leaving the grosser portions to be finished by the other dogs.

7. (of a person) Heavy in proportion to one's height; having a lot of excess flesh.

   Synonyms: great, large, bulky, fat, obese

   • 1925, W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil, London: Heinemann, 1934, Chapter 79,^[15]

     Kitty noticed that her sister’s pregnancy had blunted her features and in her black dress she looked gross and blousy.

   • 2013, Hilary Mantel, ‘Royal Bodies’, London Review of Books, 35.IV:

     He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross.

8. (archaic) Not sensitive in perception or feeling.

   Synonyms: dull, witless

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 13.15,^[16]

     For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

   • 1634, John Milton, Comus, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Humphrey Moseley, 1645, p. ,^[17]

     A thousand liveried Angels lacky her [the chaste soul],

     Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt,

     And in cleer dream, and solemn vision

     Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear.

9. (now chiefly poetic) Difficult or impossible to see through.

   Synonyms: thick, heavy

   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,^[18]

     Couragious Lancaster, imbrace thy king,

     And as grosse vapours perish by the sunne,

     Euen so let hatred with thy soueraigne smile,

   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Isaiah 60.2,^[19]

     For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 116,^[20]

     A pestilent and most corrosive steam,

     Like a gross fog Boeotian, rising fast,

     And fast condensed upon the dewy sash,

     Asks egress;

   • 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral, Boston: Fields, Osgood, p. 34,^[21]

     […] a larger life

     Upon his own impinging, with swift glimpse

     Of spacious circles luminous with mind,

     To which the ethereal substance of his own

     Seems but gross cloud to make that visible,

     Touched to a sudden glory round the edge.

10. (obsolete) Easy to perceive.

    Synonyms: obvious, clear

    • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act II, Scene 2,^[22]

      […] though the truth of it stands off as gross

      As black and white, my eye will scarcely see it.

Synonyms

• (heavy in proportion to one's height): See also Thesaurus:obese

Derived terms

• grossen
• grossish
• grossly

Translations

Noun

gross (countable and uncountable, plural gross or grosses)

1. Twelve dozen = 144.
2. The total nominal earnings or amount, before taxes, expenses, exceptions or similar are deducted. That which remains after all deductions is called net.
3. The bulk, the mass, the masses.

Translations

Verb

gross (third-person singular simple present grosses, present participle grossing, simple past and past participle grossed)

1. (transitive) To earn money, not including expenses.

   The movie grossed three million on the first weekend.

Derived terms

Related terms

• engross
• grocer, grocery, groceries

Anagrams

• Sgros, Sorgs

German

Adjective

gross (comparative grösser, superlative am grössten)

1. Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of groß

Declension

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Old High German gr?z, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz. Compare German groß, Dutch groot, English great.

Adjective

gross (comparative greesser, superlative greescht)

1. big, large

Derived terms

• Grossdaadi
• Grossmammi

Swedish

Etymology

From French grosse (douzaine), "large (dozen)"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?r?s/

Noun

gross n

1. a gross, twelve dozen (144)

Declension

Related terms

• grosshandlare

See also

• dussin
• tjog

Anagrams

• sorgs

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: s?m, IPA^(key): /s?m/
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: some

Etymology 1

From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa, feminine of summus (“highest”).

Noun

sum (plural sums)

1. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.

   The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
2. (often plural) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition).

   We're learning about division, and the sums are tricky.

   • a large sheet of paper […] covered with long sums

3. A quantity of money.

   a tidy sum

   the sum of forty pounds

   • With a great sum obtained I this freedom.

4. A summary; the principal points or thoughts when viewed together; the amount; the substance; compendium.

   This is the sum of all the evidence in the case.

   This is the sum and substance of his objections.

5. A central idea or point; gist.
6. The utmost degree.
7. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 207:

     The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.

Synonyms

• (quantity obtained by addition or aggregation): amount, sum total, summation, total, totality
• (arithmetic computation): calculation, computation
• (quantity of money): amount, quantity of money, sum of money
• (summary): See summary
• (central idea or point): center/centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nub, nitty-gritty, pith substance
• (utmost degree): See summit
• (obsolete: old English measure of corn): quarter

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Verb

sum (third-person singular simple present sums, present participle summing, simple past and past participle summed)

1. (transitive) To add together.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250b.

     when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being.

2. (transitive) To give a summary of.

Synonyms

• (to add together): add, add together, add up, sum up, summate, tally, tot, tot up, total, tote up
• (to give a summary of): See summarize

Translations

References

• sum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Kazakh ??? (som), Kyrgyz ??? (som), Uyghur ???? (som), and Uzbek so?m, all of which have the core signification “pure”, used in elliptical reference to historical coins of pure gold.

Alternative forms

• som, soum

Noun

sum (plural sums)

1. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
2. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.

Translations

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling of some.

Pronoun

sum

1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.

Determiner

sum

1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.

Etymology 4

Noun

sum (plural sums)

1. Synonym of somon

Further reading

• sum in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sum in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• sum at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• MSU, Mus, Mu?, UMS, mu's, mus, mus', ums

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• sun, su

Etymology

From Latin subtus, from sub. Compare Romanian sub.

Preposition

sum

1. under

Czech

Etymology 1

Noun

sum

1. genitive plural of suma

Etymology 2

Noun

sum

1. genitive plural of sumo

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?m?/
• Rhymes: -?m?

Conjunction

sum

1. like, as
2. when, as

Particle

sum (relative particle)

1. that, who, which

Synonyms

• ið

Gothic

Romanization

sum

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??m

Adjective

sum

1. inflection of sumur (“some”):
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

Kavalan

Noun

sum

1. urine

Latin

Etymology

The present stem is from Proto-Italic *ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ésmi (“I am, I exist”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ???? (eimí), Sanskrit ????? (ásmi), Old English eom (English am). The perfect stem is from Proto-Italic *(fe)f?ai, from Proto-Indo-European *b?úHt (“to become, be”) (whence also f?? (“to become, to be made”), and future and imperfect inflections -b?, -bam). Confer also the etymology at fore.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sum/, [s????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sum/, [sum]

Verb

sum (present infinitive esse, perfect active fu?, future participle fut?rus); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

1. (copulative) to be, exist, have [+dative]
   • Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer

     Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

     I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.

   • 1647, René Descartes, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur

     Cogito, ergo sum.

     I think, therefore I am.

   • 63 B.C.E., Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)

     O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.

     O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city do we live?

   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum ("About the Life of the Caesars", commonly referred to as "The Twelve Caesars")

     Alea iacta est.

     The die is cast.

2. to be there (impersonal verb)
3. (Medieval Latin, in the past tense) to go

   • Ad quod castrum vincendum Pisani fuerunt cum quinquaginta navibus, plattis et schafis, etc,

     They went to conquer Pisanius' castle with fifty boats, engines, siege weapons, etc.

Conjugation

In Vulgar Latin, the present infinitive was changed to have the -re ending: essere.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Aromanian: escu (in part)
• Asturian: ser (in part)
• Corsican: esse
• Dalmatian: saite
• Franco-Provençal: étre (< *estre < *essre), esse (contraction of *essre)
• Friulian: jessi, sei
• Istriot: ièsi
• Italian: essere
• Megleno-Romanian: s?m
• Mirandese: ser (in part)
• Ladin: ester, esser, esse
• Ligurian: êse
• Neapolitan: éssere
• Old French: estre
  • Middle French: estre (conflated with ester)
    • French: être
    • Bourguignon: étre
    • Champenois: ètre
    • Franc-Comtois: étre
    • Gallo: ête
    • Picard: ète
    • Norman: ête
    • Walloon: esse
• Old Portuguese: seer (in part)
  • Galician: ser
  • Portuguese: ser
• Old Occitan: esser
  • Catalan: ésser, ser
  • Occitan: èsser, èstre
• Piedmontese: esse
• Romanian: fi (in part)
• Romansch: esser, easser
• Sardinian: èssere, èssi, èssiri
• Sicilian: èssiri, siri
• Spanish: ser (in part)
• Venetian: èser, èsar, èsare, esare, èsere, èssare, èssere

Further reading

• sum¹ in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• 1 sum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, pages 1,511–1,512
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• sum in D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, Wiley Publishing, 1968
• sum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin summa

Noun

sum m (definite singular summen, indefinite plural summer, definite plural summene)

1. a sum (addition or aggregation)

   Hva er summen av 2+2?

   What's the sum of 2+2?

2. a sum (amount of money)

Derived terms

• leiesum
• pengesum

Etymology 2

From the verb summe

Noun

sum n (definite singular summet)

1. buzz (continuous noise)

Etymology 3

Verb

sum

1. imperative of summe

References

• “sum” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Latin summa

Noun

sum m (definite singular summen, indefinite plural summar, definite plural summane)

1. a sum (addition or aggregation)

   Kva er summen av 2+2?

   What's the sum of 2+2?

2. a sum (amount of money)

Derived terms

• pengesum

Etymology 2

From the verb summe

Noun

sum n (definite singular summet)

1. buzz (continuous noise)

Etymology 3

Noun

sum n (definite singular sumet, indefinite plural sum, definite plural suma)

1. an act of swimming

   Dei la på sum utover mot holmen.

   They started swimming towards the holm.

Etymology 4

Pronoun

sum m (feminine sum, neuter sumt, plural sume)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by som

References

• “sum” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sumaz, whence also Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sum/

Pronoun

sum

1. some

Descendants

• Middle English: sum, som, some
  • Scots: sum, some
  • English: some

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sumaz, whence also Old English sum, Old Norse sumr

Pronoun

sum n

1. some

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: som
  • Low German: sum

Phalura

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sum/

Noun

sum m (Perso-Arabic spelling ???)

1. mud (dry), dust

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sum, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Hu ?úm. Likely related to the forms with h- and null initials, such as Bahnar hum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sum/

Noun

sum 

1. to bathe

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sum/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *som?.

Noun

sum m anim

1. European catfish

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

sum f pl

1. genitive plural of suma

Further reading

• sum in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• sum in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Shabo

Verb

sum

1. say

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sú?m/

Noun

s?m m inan

1. suspicion, mistrust

Inflection

Further reading

• “sum”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Vurës

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sym/

Verb

sum

1. to drink