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sum
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)
- A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
- The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
- (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
- A quantity of money.
- a tidy sum
- the sum of forty pounds
- With a great sum obtained I this freedom.
- 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.
- A central idea or point; gist.
- The utmost degree.
- (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.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 207:
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)
- (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.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250b.
- (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)
- The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
- The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
Translations
Etymology 3
Eye dialect spelling of some.
Pronoun
sum
- (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.
Determiner
sum
- (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.
Etymology 4
Noun
sum (plural sums)
- 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
- under
Czech
Etymology 1
Noun
sum
- genitive plural of suma
Etymology 2
Noun
sum
- genitive plural of sumo
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse sem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?m?/
- Rhymes: -?m?
Conjunction
sum
- like, as
- when, as
Particle
sum (relative particle)
- that, who, which
Synonyms
- ið
Gothic
Romanization
sum
- Romanization of ????????????
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??m
Adjective
sum
- inflection of sumur (“some”):
- nominative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative neuter plural
Kavalan
Noun
sum
- 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
- (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.
- Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
- 1647, René Descartes, Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, in qua Dei existentia et animæ immortalitas demonstratur
- Cogito, ergo sum.
- I think, therefore I am.
- Cogito, ergo sum.
- 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?
- O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.
- 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.
- Alea iacta est.
- Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer
- to be there (impersonal verb)
- (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.
- Ad quod castrum vincendum Pisani fuerunt cum quinquaginta navibus, plattis et schafis, 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
- Middle French: estre (conflated with ester)
- 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)
- a sum (addition or aggregation)
- Hva er summen av 2+2?
- What's the sum of 2+2?
- Hva er summen av 2+2?
- a sum (amount of money)
Derived terms
- leiesum
- pengesum
Etymology 2
From the verb summe
Noun
sum n (definite singular summet)
- buzz (continuous noise)
Etymology 3
Verb
sum
- 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)
- a sum (addition or aggregation)
- Kva er summen av 2+2?
- What's the sum of 2+2?
- Kva er summen av 2+2?
- a sum (amount of money)
Derived terms
- pengesum
Etymology 2
From the verb summe
Noun
sum n (definite singular summet)
- buzz (continuous noise)
Etymology 3
Noun
sum n (definite singular sumet, indefinite plural sum, definite plural suma)
- an act of swimming
- Dei la på sum utover mot holmen.
- They started swimming towards the holm.
- Dei la på sum utover mot holmen.
Etymology 4
Pronoun
sum m (feminine sum, neuter sumt, plural sume)
- 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
- 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
- some
Declension
Descendants
- Middle Low German: som
- Low German: sum
Phalura
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sum/
Noun
sum m (Perso-Arabic spelling ???)
- 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
- to bathe
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sum/
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *som?.
Noun
sum m anim
- European catfish
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
sum f pl
- 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
- say
Slovene
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sú?m/
Noun
s?m m inan
- 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
- to drink
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length
English
Etymology
From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþu (“longness; length”), from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþ?, equivalent to long +? -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: l?ng(k)th, l?n(t)th, IPA(key): /l??(k)?/, /l?n(t)?/
- Rhymes: -??k?, -???, -?nt?, -?n?
Noun
length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- Duration.
- 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
- Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
- 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright
- (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
- (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
- (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
- (figuratively) Total extent.
- Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.
- (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
- 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club (page 38)
- […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]
- 1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, ?Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre (page 45)
- The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]
- 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club (page 38)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)
- (obsolete) To lengthen.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:
- Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.
- 1552, Richard Huloet, "Ladies of Destinie" in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum
- Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.
- a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell
- [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:
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