Noun: summa
| Singular | summa |
| Plural | summas; summae |
Sample Sentences
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In size, scope, and graphic ambition [the map] is a summa of the mapping art of the day, represented in paint by Vermeer. [1987, Svetlana Alpers, “The Mapping Impulse in Dutch Art”, in David Woodward, editor, Art and Cartography: Six Historical Essays, page 57:]
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The painting is a “summa” of the various trends that intertwined and developed during those crucial years of the early sixteenth century in Florence. [1993, Franca Falletti, The David and the Accademia Gallery, page 6:]
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Rockefeller Center is at once a summa of the Art Deco style, and a look ahead to the Internationalist style that dominated after World War II. [1999, Eric Nash, Manhattan Skyscrapers, page 93:]
Nouns inflected like summa
palestra,
sarisa,
samara,
schola,
Banff Springs physa,
exumbrella,
bildungsroman,
turritella,
Sir David's long-beaked echidna,
comatula,
nanoantenna,
retinula,
pyrexia,
mesoamygdala,
planetary nebula,
saxicava,
Bildungsroman,
billboard antenna,
structural formula,
babesia, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin summa. See: Latin Nouns '
summa'.