sumo

highest, greatest, superlative; utmost

“Caifás era sumo sacerdote.” — Caiaphas was the high priest.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Indo-European *-m̥mo- Proto-Indo-European *(s)úp-m̥mo-s Proto-Italic *supemos Latin summusbor. Spanish sumo Borrowed from Latin summus. Compare the inherited Old Spanish somo, cf. also Spanish somero.

sumo

Borrowed from Japanese 相撲 (sumō, “to mutually rush at”).