Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A comprehensive treatise, especially in philosophy or theology.
Wiktionary
- n. A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
Etymologies
- From Latin summa. (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin, from Latin, the whole; see sum1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And though it is unclear whether the title summa is original (Jordan, 1986, 182-3), the work fits the summa form in its systematic arrangement of topics and its attempt to include all possible arguments for a given position and against its contrary.”
“Dr. Natalicio received her B.S. degree in Spanish, summa cum laude, from St. Louis University, and her master's degree in Portuguese and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin.”
“Moore earned a bachelor's degree in English, summa cum laude, from the University of North Carolina and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing from Bowling Green State University (Ohio).”
“Ann Echeverria, associate of applied science in nursing; Karen A. Eck, associate of applied business in accounting technology; Amanda H. Frazier, bachelor of arts in English, summa cum laude; Nicholas E. Frye, associate of applied science in mechanical engineering technology;”
“A Cleveland native, Eisenmann holds a bachelor of arts in English, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Connecticut College in New London, Conn.; a master's degree in American literature from Georgetown University; and a second master's degree and a doctorate in the history of education from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.”
“It has been called a summa evangelica, so popular at that time, in which the author has condensed and resumed all that over sixty writers had said before him upon spiritual matters.”
“For they amount in their extraordinary compactness and depth to a little "summa" of his theology.”
“Dueling papers this morning on the word "summa" as compared with "some of.”
“The seventh book of the Ormesta, as it was known, contained a description of the world and the Mappa Mundi was intended to illustrate this "summa", or compendium of knowledge.”
“Perhaps one day I will have the opportunity to develop a more rigorous 'summa', but that is not in my hands - if it is God's will, then he will 'make it so'.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘summa’.
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phrontistery-s
from phrontistery.info
sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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LATIN
Latin you didn't learn in college.
nemo me impune la..., in pace requiescat, fecundissmismus, aliquantus, abundantiam, sanctorum, incunabulis, audeamus, mediocritas, adequatio intelle..., communitatis, sapientiam and 20 more...
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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qd
speculum, chest pain, labor, delivery, summa, c-section, levorotation
Tweets
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chained_bear "'Immoderate' or 'lascivious' dancing was again listed as a confessable sin in an important summa, or directory of sins, promulgated in 1317."
—Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2006), 81 Mar 13, 2009