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summa
/ˈsumə/
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What does summa mean?
noun
- A comprehensive summary of, or treatise on a subject, especially theology or philosophy.
- (figuratively) A culmination or archetypal example.
proper noun
- A surname from Italian.
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IPA pronunciation
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In this sense the sublimest genius will be found infelix operas summa, nam ponere totum nescit.
In other words, the fullness of liberty lies in the fullness of reason: summa lex summa libertas.
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“Multos in summa pericula misfit Venturi timor ipse mali: fortissimus ille est, Qui promptus metuenda pati, si cominus instent, Et differre potest.”
St. Thomas Aquinas gave it his sanction, saying in his all authoritative Summa, "Rains and winds, and whatsoever occurs by local impulse alone, can be caused by demons."
Imparibus meritis pendent tria corpora ramis: Dismas et Gesmas, media est divina potestas; Alta petit Dismas, infelix, infima, Gesmas; Nos et res nostras conservet summa potestas.