somme

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Inherited from Old French somme, sume, borrowed from Latin summa.

somme f (plural sommes)

1. sum; total

   Il a reçu une somme de 300 euros. He received a sum of 300 euros.

• en somme
• jeu à somme nulle
• somme toute
• sommer

An alteration of Latin somnus, to assimilate with sommeil.

somme m (plural sommes)

1. nap; doze; quick sleep

• piquer un somme

Inherited from Old French some, from Late Latin sauma, alteration of Latin sagma (“packsaddle”), from Ancient Greek σάγμα (ságma). Compare Occitan sauma, Italian soma and salma (“corpse”).

somme f (plural sommes)

2. packsaddle

• bête de somme

Inflected forms.

somme

1. inflection of sommer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “somme”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• mômes

somme f pl

1. feminine plural of sommo

somme f

1. plural of somma

somme

1. some

somme

1. some (plural of som)

From Latin somnus.

somme m

1. sleep