different between summoned vs summons

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?m?nd/

Verb

summoned

1. simple past tense and past participle of summon

Anagrams

• nommused

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?.m?nz/

Etymology 1

From Middle English somouns (“order or command to do something”), borrowed from Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summone?, summon?re (“to summon”).

Noun

summons (plural summonses)

1. A call to do something, especially to come.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages

     special summonses by the king

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the Most Learned, Reverend and Pious Dr. H. Hammond

     this summons […] unfit either to dispute or disobey

   • 1630, John Hayward, The Life and Raigne of King Edward VI

     He sent to summon the seditious, and to offer pardon […] ; but neither summons nor pardon was any thing regarded.

2. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
3. (military) A demand for surrender.

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ??? (?ômôn)
• ? Cebuano: sumon
• ? Malay: saman
  • ? English: saman

Translations

Verb

summons (third-person singular simple present summonses, present participle summonsing, simple past and past participle summonsed)

1. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons. [17th C.]

See also

• summons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Summons in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

summons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon

Anagrams

• musmons