different between treatise vs summa

English

Etymology

From Middle English tretys, from Anglo-Norman tretiz and Old French traitis (“treatise, account”), from traitier (“to deal with, treat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?i?t?s/, /?t?i?t?z/

Noun

treatise (plural treatises)

1. A formal, usually lengthy, systematic discourse on some subject.

   • “ […] We are engaged in a great work, a treatise on our river fortifications, perhaps?? But since when did army officers afford the luxury of amanuenses in this simple republic?? […]”

   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 232d.

     And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.

Synonyms

• dissertation
• disquisition
• monograph
• treatment (informal explanation, usually in essay form)

Related terms

• treat
• treaty

Translations

Anagrams

• ariettes, iterates, teariest, testeria, treaties

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