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Etymology 1

Middle English summe, from Old French, 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. (UK, Ireland) An arithmetic computation, especially one posed to a student as an exercise (not necessarily limited to addition.)
  3. A quantity of money.
    a tidy sum
  4. A summary.
  5. A central idea or point.
  6. The utmost degree.
  7. (obsolete) An old English measure of corn equal to the quarter.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, page 207:
      The sum is also used for the quarter, and the strike for the bushel.
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Translations
quantity obtained by addition or aggregation
  • Arabic: مجموع (ar) (majmuu3) m.
  • Armenian: գումար (gumar)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 總和 (cmn), 总和 (cmn) (zǒnghé), 總數 (cmn), 总数 (cmn) (zǒngshù)
  • Czech: součet (cs) m.
  • Dutch: som (nl) f.
  • Finnish: summa (fi)
  • French: somme (fr) f.
  • Georgian: ჯამი (ka)
  • German: Summe (de) f.
  • Greek: άθροισμα (el) n.
  • Hebrew: סכום (he) (sxum)
  • Hungarian: összeg (hu)
  • Icelandic: summa (is) f., samtala (is) f.
  • Italian: somma (it) f.
  • Japanese: 総額 (ja) (そうがく, sōgaku)
  • Korean: 합계 (ko) (hapkye)
  • Norwegian:
    Bokmål: sum (nb) m.
    Nynorsk: sum (nn) m.
  • Persian: مجموع (fa)
  • Polish: suma (pl) f.
  • Portuguese: soma (pt) f.
  • Russian: сумма (ru) (súmma) f.
  • Scottish Gaelic: suim (gd) f.
  • Serbian: збир (sr) (zbir) m.
  • Slovene: vsota (sl) f.
  • Spanish: suma (es) f., adición (es) f.
  • Swahili: jumla (sw)
  • Swedish: summa (sv) c.
arithmetic problem
  • Dutch: rekensom f., som f.
  • Finnish: laskutehtävä
  • French: calcul (fr) m.
  • Italian: somma (it) f.
  • Norwegian: sum (no)
  • Polish: suma (pl) f.
  • Swedish: matematikexempel (sv) n., matematikuppgift (sv) c., räkneuppgift (sv) c.
quantity of money
  • Arabic: مبلغ (ar) (mablagh) m.
  • Armenian: գումար (gumar)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 金額 (cmn), 金额 (cmn) (jīn'é)
  • Czech: suma (cs), částka (cs)
  • Dutch: som (nl) f.
  • Finnish: summa (fi)
  • French: somme (fr) f.
  • German: Summe (de) f.
summary — see summary central idea or point
summit — see summit obsolete: old English measure of corn
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  • Latin: summa, -ae f.
  • Telugu: మొత్తం (mottaM)
  • Telugu: కూడిక (kUDika)
  • Telugu: లెక్క (lekka)

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To add together.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 250b.
      when you say that stability and change are, it's because you're summing them up together as embraced by it, and taking note of the communion each of them has with being.
  2. (transitive) To give a summary of.
Synonyms
Translations
to add together
give a summary of — see summarize

Etymology 2

From Uzbek.

Noun

sum (plural sums)

  1. The basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan.
  2. The basic unit of money in Uzbekistan.
Translations
basic unit of money in Kyrgyzstan
  • Swedish: som (sv) c.
basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
  • Swedish: som (sv) c.

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Anagrams

Faroese

Conjunction

sum

  1. like, as
  2. when, as

Particle

sum (relative particle)

  1. that, who, which

Synonyms

Gothic

Romanization

sum

  1. Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌼

Icelandic

Adjective

sum

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

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésmi (“I am, I exist”). Cognates include Ancient Greek εἰμί (eimi), Sanskrit अस्मि (ásmi), Old English eom (English am).

Pronunciation

Verb

present active sum, present infinitive esse, perfect active fuī, future participle futūrus. (irregular)

  1. I am, exist.
    • Heauton Timorumenos (“The Self-Tormentor”) by Publius Terentius Afer
      Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.
      I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me.
    • René Descartes
      Cogito, ergo sum.
      I think, therefore I am.
    • Catiline Orations by Cicero (Latin text and English translations may be found here, a parsed version is here)
      O di immortales, ubinam gentium sumus? Quam rem publicam habemus? In qua urbe vivimus?.
      O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? What is the government we have? In what city do we live?
    Sum sine regno.
    I am without a kingdom.
    Sic sum ut vides.
    Thus I am as you see.
    Dixit duas res ei rubori fuisse.
    He said that two things had abashed him.
    Civis romanus sum.
    I am a Roman citizen.

Inflection

Irregular conjugation.

Irregular
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present sum es est sumus estis sunt
future erō eris erit erimus eritis erunt
imperfect eram erās erat erāmus erātis erant
perfect fuī fuistī fuit fuimus fuistis fuērunt
future perfect fuerō fueris fuerit fuerimus fueritis fuerint
pluperfect fueram fuerās fuerat fuerāmus fuerātis fuerant
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present sim sīs sit sīmus sītis sint
imperfect essem essēs esset essēmus essētis essent
perfect fuerim fuerīs fuerit fuerīmus fuerītis fuerint
pluperfect fuissem fuissēs fuisset fuissēmus fuissētis fuissent
imperatives active passive
present (you) future (you) future (he/she) present (you) future (you) future (he/she)
singular es estō estō — — —
plural este estōte suntō — — —
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives esse fuisse futūrus esse — — —
participles — — futūrus -ra, -rum — — —

Derived terms

Descendants

Lojban

Rafsi

sum

  1. Rafsi of sumti.

Norwegian

Etymology 1

Noun

sum

  1. a sum (addition or aggregation)
    (Bokmål) Hva er summen av 2+2?
    (Nynorsk) Kva er summen av 2+2?
    What's the sum of 2+2?
  2. a sum (amount of money)
Inflection
Inflection of sum
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m sum summen summer summene
Nynorsk m sum summen summar summane
References

Etymology 2

Noun

sum n. (definite singular summet)

  1. buzz (continuous noise)
References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Noun

sum n. (definite singular sumet; indefinite plural sum; definite plural suma [sumi])

  1. an act of swimming
    Dei la på sum utover mot holmen.
    They started swimming towards the holm.
References

Etymology 2

From Old Norse sumr.

Alternative forms

Pronoun

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

  1. some
    Sumt av det er nytt, resten er ved det gamle.
    Some of it is new, the rest is like it used to be.
References

Old English

Etymology

Proto-Germanic *sumaz, whence also Old High German sum, Old Norse sumr

Pronoun

sum n.

  1. some

Descendants

Polish

sum (a catfish, Silurus glanis)

Pronunciation

Noun

sum m.

  1. European catfish

Declension

declension of sum
singular plural
nominative sum sumy
genitive suma sumów
dative sumowi sumom
accusative suma sumy
instrumental sumem sumami
locative sumie sumach
vocative sumie sumy

Shabo

Verb

sum

  1. say

Slovene

Noun

sum m.

  1. suspicion, mistrust

 

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Summation is the operation of adding a sequence of numbers; the result is their sum or total. If numbers are added sequentially from left to right, any intermediate result is a partial sum, prefix sum, or running total of the summation. The numbers to be summed (called addends, or sometimes summands) may be integers, rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers. Besides numbers, other types of values can be added as well: vectors, matrices, polynomials and, in general, elements of any additive group (or even monoid). For finite sequences of such elements, summation always produces a well-defined sum (possibly by virtue of the convention for empty sums).
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