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; presenting information in such a form.

   Synonyms: summative, summarizing (part. adj.)

   Near-synonym: abstractive

   A summary review is in the appendix.

2. Performed speedily, without formal ceremony, and (especially) without regard to legality.

   Near-synonym: extrajudicial

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

3. (law) Performed by omitting the procedures of a full trial, but within a legally valid framework.

   Hypernyms: expedited, expeditious

   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)
• Galician: conciso (gl) m
• 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)
• Catalan: sumari (ca) m
• 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)