summa

English translation: summa, treatise, collection

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Italian term or phrase:summa
English translation:summa, treatise, collection
Entered by: Giovanni Orlando

10:34 Apr 7, 2004
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Poetry & Literature
Italian term or phrase: summa
La filosofia di questa summa del meglio delle prove scientifiche...
Giovanni Orlando
Italy
Local time: 02:26
summa, treatise
Explanation:
Most English speakers don't know the word summa, so I'd only use it if your translation is for a very specialist academic readership.

For a more general readership I'd use treatise.
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Jane Griffiths (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:26
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Grazie!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3summa, treatise
Jane Griffiths (X)
4summa/summing up
Ilaria Bottelli
4summa
Kika Capretti
4compendium / collection
bistefano


  

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summa/summing up


Explanation:
summary

• Summa Theologica Books - 2004-03-30 [apri in una nuova finestra]
... Summa Theologica. The Summa Theologica is a summing up of all that can
be known about God and man's relations with God. ... Summa Theologica. ...
http://ignatius-press.paybackmall.com/?cat=Books
lingua: en




Ilaria Bottelli
Italy
Local time: 02:26
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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summa


Explanation:
summa

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Note added at 6 mins (2004-04-07 10:40:42 GMT)
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anche treatise, o summation se è in senso figurato

Kika Capretti
Local time: 02:26
Native speaker of: Native in ItalianItalian
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summa, treatise


Explanation:
Most English speakers don't know the word summa, so I'd only use it if your translation is for a very specialist academic readership.

For a more general readership I'd use treatise.

Jane Griffiths (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:26
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 32
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Grazie!

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agree  Mario Marcolin
29 mins

agree  GAR
2 hrs

agree  Monika@ProZ
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compendium / collection


Explanation:
From the phrase, I think this is something like a selected collection
of abstracts or something like that, more than an Encyclopedia of everything there is to say about science.

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Note added at 25 mins (2004-04-07 10:59:42 GMT)
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\"Summa\" = \"collection of EVERY <something>\"

\"Compendium\" = \"(abbreviated) collection of SOME/SELECTED/BEST-OF <something>\"

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Note added at 26 mins (2004-04-07 11:00:49 GMT)
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Perciò la mia tesi è che lo scrivente ha usato impropriamente (già nell\'originale italiano) il termine \"summa\".

Ciao a tutti

bistefano
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