different between summit vs summa

English

Etymology 1

From Late Middle English somete, from early Middle French somete, from Old French sommette, somet (compare modern French sommet), a diminutive of som (“highest part, top of a hill”), from Latin summum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?m??t, IPA^(key): /?s?m?t/
• Homophone: summat (in some dialects)
• Rhymes: -?m?t

Noun

summit (plural summits)

1. (countable) A peak; the topmost point or surface, as of a mountain.

   In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mount Shasta.

2. (countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.

   They met for an international summit on environmental issues.

Usage notes

Colloquially summit is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a summit, such as the South Summit of Mount Everest. These are distinguished by topographic prominence as subsummits (low prominence) or independent summits (high prominence).

Synonyms

• (peak, top of mountain): acme, apex, peak, zenith

Derived terms

• subsummit
• Summit County
• summiteer

Translations

Verb

summit (third-person singular simple present summits, present participle summiting or summitting, simple past and past participle summited or summitted)

1. (transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
   • 2012, Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic, vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:

     Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English *summit, *sumwit, *sumwiht, variant of sum wiht, som wiht (“some thing”, literally “some wight”). More at some, wight.

Alternative forms

• sommit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?mit/

Pronoun

summit

1. (Northern England, East Midlands) Something

Anagrams

• mutism

Italian

Noun

summit m (invariable)

1. summit (gathering of leaders)

   Synonyms: vertice, conferenza

Swedish

Verb

summit

1. supine of simma. (strong inflection)

Anagrams

• mutism

Tatar

Etymology

Borrowed from English summit.

Noun

summit

1. summit

References

• ?nvestitsiä Summit?

English

Etymology

From Latin summa.

Noun

summa (plural summas or summae)

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

Anagrams

• Mumas, maums, ummas

Finnish

(index su)

Etymology

From Latin summa.

Noun

summa

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

Declension

Derived terms

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

Compounds

Anagrams

• ammus, sammu, samum

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m?a

Noun

summa f (genitive singular summu, nominative plural summur)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• summa: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?s??m?ä]
• summa: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?sum??]
• summ?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma?/, [?s??m?ä?]
• summ?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?sum??]

Noun

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.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• superus

Descendants

Noun

summ?

1. ablative singular of summa

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• summa: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?s??m?ä]
• summa: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?sum??]
• summ?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma?/, [?s??m?ä?]
• summ?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?sum.ma/, [?sum??]

Adjective

summa

1. inflection of summus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

summ?

1. ablative feminine singular of summus

Etymology 3

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

summa

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of summum

References

• 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?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• summet

Verb

summa

1. inflection of summe:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

summa c

1. sum, result of addition

Declension

Anagrams

• mumsa