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in the PONS Dictionary

summa <ae> f (summus)

1.

summa
höchste Stelle, Vorrang [ ordinis; imperii Oberbefehl; totius belli ]
summam alci concedere

2. übtr

summa
Hauptsache, -punkt, -gegenstand, -inhalt, -gedanke [ postulatorum Hauptforderungen; epistulae; orationis; sententiae; iudicii ]

3.

summa
Summe, Gesamtzahl
summam facere [o. subducere]
das Fazit ziehen
summa summarum
Gesamtergebnis
addendo deducendoque videre, quae reliqui summa fiat

4.

summa
Geld(summe) [ magna; parva ]

5.

summa
Menge, Masse [ praedae; frumenti ]

6.

summa
Gesamtheit, Inbegriff, das Ganze [ exercitūs; rerum gesamte Lage der Dinge o. gesamte Gewalt; belli Gesamtleitung; victoriae völlige Entscheidung ]
ad summam [o. (in) summa]
im Ganzen, überhaupt, kurz
Declension for summa
Case Singular Plural
Nominative summa summae
Genitive summae summārum
Dative summae summīs
Accusative summam summās
Ablative summā summīs

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

meist Pl summa -ōrum
[ scopuli Spitzen; malorum höchstes Maß ]
summa summarum
Gesamtergebnis
summā vi
mit größter Anstrengung
in summa sacra via
oben auf der Heiligen Straße
summum imperium [o. summa imperii]
höchste Gewalt

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