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3-letter words (3 found)

MUS,SUM,UMS,

2-letter words (3 found)

MU,UM,US,

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Definitions and meaning of sum

sum

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) enPR: sŭm, IPA(key): /sʌm/
  • Rhymes: -ʌm
  • Homophone: some

Etymology 1

From Middle English summe, from Old French summe, from Latin summa, feminine of summus (“highest”).

Noun

sum (plural sums)

  1. A quantity obtained by addition or aggregation.
    The sum of 3 and 4 is 7.
  2. (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.
  3. A quantity of money.
    a tidy sum
    the sum of forty pounds
  4. 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.
  5. A central idea or point; gist.
  6. The utmost degree.
  7. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
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

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

Verb

sum (third-person singular simple present sums, present participle summing, simple past and past participle summed)

  1. (transitive) To add together.
  2. (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 сом (som), Kyrgyz сом (som), Uyghur سوم (som), and Uzbek soʻm, 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)

  1. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
  2. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
Translations

Etymology 3

Multiple parts of speech

sum

  1. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Eye dialect spelling of some.
  2. (African-American Vernacular, Internet slang, text messaging) Pronunciation spelling of something.

Etymology 4

From Mongolian сум (sum), from Manchu ᠨᡳᡵᡠ (niru, “a large arrow, militia company, district”). Ultimately from Proto-Mongolic *sumun (“arrow”).

Alternative forms

  • somon (in Buryatia, Russia)
  • sumon (in Tuva, Russia)
  • sumu (sometimes in Inner Mongolia, China)

Noun

sum (plural sums)

  1. A type of administrative district used in China, Mongolia, and Russia. In Mongolia, a sum is smaller than a province. In China, it is only used in Inner Mongolia, where it is equivalent to a township.

Further reading

  • “sum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “sum”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “sum”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

See also

Anagrams

  • MSU, Mus, Muş, UMS, mu's, mus, mus', ums

Aromanian

Alternative forms

  • sun, su

Etymology

From Latin subtus, from sub. Compare Romanian sub.

Preposition

sum

  1. under

Czech

Etymology 1

Noun

sum

  1. genitive plural of suma

Etymology 2

Noun

sum

  1. genitive plural of sumo

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse sem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʊmː/
  • Rhymes: -ʊmː

Conjunction

sum

  1. like, as
  2. when, as

Particle

sum (relative particle)

  1. that, who, which

Synonyms

  • ið

Gothic

Romanization

sum

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌼

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sùm/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [sɪ̀m]

Ideophone

sùm

  1. Alternative form of gùm (“smelling bad”)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʏːm

Adjective

sum

  1. inflection of sumur (“some”):
    1. nominative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative neuter plural
    Ég þekkti sum barnanna. ― I knew some of the children.

Kavalan

Noun

sum

  1. urine

Khalaj

Alternative forms

  • süm

Etymology

From Persian سم (som).

Pronunciation

  • (Talxâbî) IPA(key): [sʊ̞m]

Noun

sum (definite accusative sumı, plural sumlar)

  1. hoof

Declension

References

  • Doerfer, Gerhard (1971) Khalaj Materials, Indiana University, →ISBN

Latin

Alternative forms

  • esom, som (Archaic Latin)
  • esum (obsolete hapax)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *som~*ezom, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti (“be”) + *bʰúHt (“become”). From the latter of the two derive all the /f-/ forms of Latin sum (including fore), the separate verb fīō (“become”), and the verb-endings -bō (future) and -bam (past imperfect). Clipped conjugations with /s-/, such as sum itself, occurred alongside more conservative equivalents with /es-/ in early Latin, such as the archaic esum. The clipped forms likely arose as unstressed clitics.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /sum/, [s̠ʊ̃ˑ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sum/, [sum]

Verb

sum (present infinitive esse, perfect active fuī, future participle futūrus); irregular conjugation, irregular, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

  1. (copulative) to be, exist, have [+dative]
    Civis romanus sum. ― I am a Roman citizen.
    Sum sine regno. ― I am without a kingdom.
  2. (existential) there be
  3. (Medieval Latin, in the past tense) to go
  4. (Medieval Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin), imperative be

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

(Citation forms mostly from the late infinitive essere.)

  • Balkan Romance: (blended with fierī)
    • Megleno-Romanian: săm
    • Aromanian: hiu
    • Istro-Romanian: fi
    • Romanian: fi
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: esse
    • Gallurese: esse
    • Italian: essere
    • Neapolitan: essere
    • Sassarese: assé
    • Sicilian: èssiri
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: èssere
  • Padanian:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Emilian: èser
      • Istriot: ièsi
      • Ligurian: êse
      • Lombard: vesser
      • Piedmontese: esse
      • Romagnol: es
    • Friulian: jessi, sei
    • Ladin: ester
    • Romansch: esser
    • Venetian: èser
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: ésser
    • Franco-Provençal: étre
    • Old French: estre (see there for further descendants)
    • Occitan: èsser
  • Ibero-Romance: (blended with sedēre)
    • Mozarabic: שיראד (šyrʔd)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: ser
      • Fala: sel
      • Galician: ser
      • Portuguese: ser
    • Old Leonese: [Term?]
      • Asturian: ser
      • Leonese: ser
      • Mirandese: ser
      • Extremaduran: sel
    • Old Spanish: ser
      • Spanish: ser
    • →? Catalan: ser
  • Borrowings:
    • → English: esse
    • → German: Esse

References

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[9], 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin summa.

Noun

sum m (definite singular summen, indefinite plural summer, definite plural summene)

  1. a sum (addition or aggregation)
  2. a sum (amount of money)
Derived terms
  • leiesum
  • pengesum

Etymology 2

From the verb summe.

Noun

sum n (definite singular summet)

  1. buzz (continuous noise)

Etymology 3

Verb

sum

  1. 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)

  1. a sum (addition or aggregation)
  2. a sum (amount of money)
Derived terms
  • pengesum

Etymology 2

From the verb summe.

Noun

sum n (definite singular summet)

  1. buzz (continuous noise)

Etymology 3

Noun

sum n (definite singular sumet, indefinite plural sum, definite plural suma)

  1. an act of swimming

Etymology 4

Pronoun

sum m (feminine sum, neuter sumt, plural sume)

  1. (pre-2012) alternative form of 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

  1. some
    • "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 9, verse 9

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: som, somme, summe; zome
    • English: some
    • Scots: sum, some
    • Yola: zim, zum

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sumaz, whence also Old English sum, Old Norse sumr.

Pronoun

sum n

  1. some

Declension


Descendants

  • Middle Low German: som
    • Low German: sum

Phalura

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sum/

Noun

sum m (Perso-Arabic spelling سُم)

  1. mud (dry), dust

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

  • Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[10], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *sum, from Proto-Mon-Khmer. Cognate with Hu θúm. Likely related to the forms with h- and null initials, such as Bahnar hum.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sum/

Noun

sum 

  1. to bathe

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sum/
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: sum
  • Homophone: Sum

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish som.

Noun

sum m animal

  1. wels, wels catfish, sheatfish (Silurus glanis)
    Synonyms: sum europejski, sum pospolity
Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

sum f

  1. genitive plural of suma

Further reading

  • sum in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • sum in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • sum in PWN's encyclopedia

Shabo

Verb

sum

  1. say

Slovene

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /súːm/

Noun

sȗm m inan

  1. 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

  1. to drink

Source: wiktionary.org