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sumă

sum (a total amount, especially of money) /ˈsu.mə/

noun#2132 most common

Also: amount, total

Example sentences

Aceasta este o sumă mică.

This is a small sum.

Am nevoie de o sumă de bani.

I need a sum of money.

Suma totală a facturii este de o sută de lei.

The total sum of the invoice is one hundred lei.

Băncile au transferat sume uriașe în ultima lună.

The banks transferred huge sums last month.

Guvernul a alocat o sumă considerabilă pentru educație.

The government allocated a considerable sum for education.

Restituirea sumelor încasate ilegal a fost dispusă de instanță.

The court ordered the refund of the sums collected illegally.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sumă / suma	sume / sumele
Genitive	sume / sumei	sume / sumelor
Accusative	sumă / suma	sume / sumele
Vocative	sumo	sumelor

Word family

a însumato total up, to amount to

însumarethe act of summing up, totaling

sumarbrief, concise; also a summary

sumă de bania sum of money

Etymology

Sumă entered Romanian from French somme during the nineteenth-century wave of Latinate and French borrowings that reshaped Romanian financial and administrative vocabulary. French somme itself descends from Latin summa, the feminine form of summus, meaning highest. The original sense of top or highest point narrowed over time to mean a total, since a sum is the result you reach at the top of a column of figures.

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