summe

See also: Summe and šumme

English

Noun

summe (plural summes)

1. Obsolete form of sum.

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin summus. Compare the inherited Catalan som.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈsum.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈsum.me]

Adjective

summe (feminine summa, masculine and feminine plural summes)

1. highest, greatest, superlative
2. utmost (most extreme)

Further reading

• “summe”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “summe”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “summe” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “summe” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Verb

summe

1. inflection of summen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. singular imperative
   3. first/third-person singular subjunctive I

Latin

Adjective

summe

1. vocative masculine singular of summus

References

• “summe”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “summe”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “summe”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Onomatopoeic (lydord), from Middle Low German summen; compare with German summen

Verb

summe (imperative sum, present tense summer, passive summes, simple past and past participle summa or summet, present participle summende)

1. to buzz, hum, drone

References

• “summe” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “summe_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Onomatopoeic (lydord), from Middle Low German summen

Verb

summe (present tense summar, past tense summa, past participle summa, passive infinitive summast, present participle summande, imperative sum)

1. to buzz, hum, drone

Alternative forms

• summa

References

• “summe” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.