Summa definition

so͝omə, sŭmə
summae summas
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A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
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A comprehensive treatise, especially in philosophy or theology.
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A comprehensive treatise or exposition, as by a medieval scholastic.
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summa
Plural:
summae, summas

Origin of summa

  • Medieval Latin from Latin the whole sum

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin summa.

    From Wiktionary

Summa Sentence Examples

  • He carried few books to Holland with him, but a Bible and the Summa of Thomas Aquinas were amongst them.'

  • The Romana, or, as he himself calls it, De summa temporum vel origine actibusque gentis Romanorum, was composed in 551.

  • As for the influence he exercised on posterity, it is enough to say that Luca Pacioli, about 1500, in his celebrated Summa, leans so exclusively to Leonardo's works (at that time known in manuscript only) that he frankly acknowledges his dependence on them, and states that wherever no other author is quoted all belongs to Leonardus Pisanus.

  • The country of Cutch was invaded about the 13th century by a body of Mahommedans of the Summa tribe, who under the guidance of five brothers emigrated from Sind, and who gradually subdued or expelled the original inhabitants, consisting of three distinct races.

  • Nevertheless Hugo, by the composition of his Summa sententiarum, endeavoured to give a methodical or rational presentation of the content of faith, and was thus the first of the so-called Summists.

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