summary

See also: Summary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməɹi/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: summery

Etymology 1

From Middle English summary, from Medieval Latin summārius, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives).

Adjective

summary (comparative more summary, superlative most summary)

1. Concise, brief or presented in a condensed form

   A summary review is in the appendix.

2. Performed speedily and without formal ceremony.

   They used summary executions to break the resistance of the people.

3. (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial.

   The matter was brought to a close by summary dismissal of the cases.

   The summary executions caused outrage.

Derived terms

• summarily
• summary dismissal

Translations

concise

• Bulgarian: сбит (bg) (sbit), кратък (bg) (kratǎk)
• Catalan: sumari (ca)
• Czech: stručný (cs)
• Esperanto: maldetala
• Finnish: tiivistetty (fi), lyhyt (fi)
• French: sommaire (fr)
• Georgian: მოკლე გადმოცემა (moḳle gadmocema), შეჯამება (šeǯameba)
• German: zusammenfassend (de)
• Hungarian: összefoglaló (hu), összefoglalt (hu), áttekintő (hu), kivonatolt, rövidre fogott
• Irish: achomair
• Italian: sommario (it) m, riassunto (it) m, resoconto (it) m, rapporto (it) m, in breve, in sintensi
• Japanese: 概略的な (がいりゃくてきな, gairyakuteki na)
• Malayalam: സാരസംഗ്രഹ (sārasaṅgraha), സംഗ്രഹ (saṅgraha)
• Portuguese: sumário (pt), conciso (pt), resumido (pt), resumo (pt)
• Spanish: sumario (es)
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)
• Walloon: rascourti m

performed speedily

• Bulgarian: безцеремонен (bg) (bezceremonen)
• Catalan: sumari (ca)
• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
• French: sommaire (fr)
• Hungarian: (accelerated) gyorsított (hu), (of jurisdiction, justice, court, proceedings, procedure, esp. in military law) rögtönítélő (hu)
• Italian: sommario (it) m, sommaria (it) f
• Polish: doraźny (pl) m
• Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumo (pt)
• Spanish: apurado (es), a todo dar
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)

cutting the procedures of a normal trial

• Bulgarian: по съкратена процедура (po sǎkratena procedura)
• Finnish: pika- (fi), summittainen (fi)
• French: sommaire (fr)
• German: standrechtlich (de)
• Hungarian: sommás (hu)
• Italian: sommario (it) m, sommaria (it) f
• Portuguese: sumário (pt), resumir (pt)
• Spanish: sumario (es), somero (es)
• Swedish: summarisk (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} summier (nl)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} estratto (it) m, ^{(please verify)} compendio (it) m, ^{(please verify)} sommario (it) m

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin summārium, from Latin summa (“total, sum”) + -ārium (suffix forming nouns of purpose).

Noun

summary (plural summaries)

1. An abstract or a condensed presentation of the substance of a body of material.

   I'd forgotten what happened in the first Harry Potter book so I read a summary of the narrative before starting the second one.

   make a summary of the events

Synonyms

• précis
• upshot, bottom line, short form (slang)
• Thesaurus:summary

Derived terms

• executive summary
• in summary
• management summary
• metasummary
• microsummary
• midsummary
• summarize
• summary diligence
• summary execution
• summary judgment
• summary jurisdiction
• summary offence
• summary proceedings

 

Translations

condensed presentation

• Albanian: përmbledhje (sq) f
• Arabic: خُلَاصَة f (ḵulāṣa), مُلَخَّص m (mulaḵḵaṣ)
• Armenian: ամփոփում (hy) (ampʻopʻum), համառոտ շարադրանք (hamaṙot šaradrankʻ)
• Azerbaijani: xülasə
• Basque: laburpen
• Belarusian: рэзюмэ́ n (rezjumé)
• Bulgarian: резюме́ (bg) n (rezjumé)
• Catalan: resum (ca) m, sumari (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 摘要 (zaak⁶ jiu³)

  Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào)

• Cornish: berrskrif m
• Czech: souhrn (cs) m, shrnutí n, resumé (cs) n
• Danish: resume (da) n, resumé (da) n
• Dutch: samenvatting (nl) f, overzicht (nl) n, opsomming (nl) f
• Esperanto: enhavtabelo, resumo
• Estonian: resümee, kokkuvõte
• Finnish: yhteenveto (fi), lyhennelmä (fi), tiivistelmä (fi)
• French: résumé (fr) m, sommaire (fr) m, récapitulation (fr) f, compte rendu (fr) m
• Galician: resumo m
• Georgian: შემაჯამებელი (šemaǯamebeli)
• German: Zusammenfassung (de) f
• Greek: περίληψη (el) f (perílipsi), σύνοψη (el) f (sýnopsi)
• Hebrew: תַּמְצִית (he) f (tamtsít)
• Hindi: सारांश (hi) m (sārāñś), ख़ुलासा m (xulāsā)
• Hungarian: összefoglaló (hu), összefoglalás (hu), összegzés (hu), kivonat (hu), áttekintés (hu), summázat (hu), foglalat (hu), esszencia (hu)
• Ido: rezumo (io)
• Irish: achoimre (ga) f, achoimriú m
• Italian: riassunto (it) m, sommario (it) m
• Japanese: 要約 (ja) (ようやく, yōyaku), 概要 (ja) (がいよう, gaiyō), 大要 (ja) (たいよう, taiyō)
• Kazakh: түйіндеме (tüiındeme)
• Khmer: សរុប (km) (saʼrop)
• Korean: 요약(要約) (ko) (yoyak), 개요(槪要) (gaeyo), 대요(大要) (daeyo)
• Kyrgyz: кыскача (kıskaca)
• Lao: ສະລູບ (sa lūp), ສະລູບຄວາມ (sa lūp khuām)
• Latin: breviārium n, summārium n
• Latvian: kopsavilkums m
• Lithuanian: santrauka f
• Macedonian: резиме́ n (rezimé)
• Malay: ringkasan (ms)
• Malayalam: സംഗ്രഹം (ml) (saṅgrahaṁ), സാരസംഗ്രഹം (sārasaṅgrahaṁ)
• Maori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopototanga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppsummering m or f, sammendrag (no) n, resumé n, resymé n

  Nynorsk: oppsummering f

• Pashto: خلاصه (ps) f (xolāsa)
• Persian: خلاصه (fa) (xolâse), چکیده (fa) (čakide)
• Polish: streszczenie (pl) n, skrót (pl) m, podsumowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: resumo (pt) m, sumário (pt) m
• Romanian: rezumat (ro) n
• Russian: резюме́ (ru) n (rezjumɛ́), кра́ткое изложе́ние n (krátkoje izložénije), ито́ги (ru) m pl (itógi), конспе́кт (ru) m (konspékt)
• Scottish Gaelic: giorrachadh (gd) m, geàrr-chunntas m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: резѝме̄ m, саже́так m

  Roman: rezìmē (sh) m, sažétak (sh) m

• Slovak: zhrnutie n, resumé n
• Slovene: povzetek m
• Spanish: resumen (es) m, sumario (es) m, compendio (es) m
• Swedish: sammanfattning (sv) c
• Tagalog: buod
• Tajik: хулоса (xulosa)
• Thai: สรุป (th) (sà-rùp)
• Turkish: özet (tr), fezleke (tr)
• Ukrainian: пі́дсумок m (pídsumok), резюме́ n (rezjumé), сти́слий ви́клад m (stýslyj výklad)
• Urdu: خُلاصَہ (ur) m (xulāsā)
• Uzbek: xulosa (uz)
• Vietnamese: tóm tắt (vi) (總悉)
• Yiddish: קיצור m (kitser)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} సారాంశము (te) (sārāṁśamu)