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somme

/sɔm/

noun, feminine/sɔm/plural: sommes

sum; total

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

Related: en somme, jeu à somme nulle, somme toute, sommer

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

noun, masculine/sɔm/plural: sommes

nap; doze; quick sleep

Related: piquer un somme

An alteration of Latin somnus, to assimilate with sommeil.

noun, feminine/sɔm/plural: sommes

packsaddle

Related: bête de 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”).