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Latin
Verb
sūmor
- first-person singular present passive indicative of sūmō
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *sumar, see also Old Saxon sumar, Old High German sumar, Old Norse sumar.
Pronunciation
Noun
sumor m
- summer
- late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
...þis ēalond hafað myċele lengran dagas on sumera, ⁊ swā ēac nihta on wintra, þonne ðā sūðdǣlas middanġeardes.- ...this island has much longer days in the summer, and equally longer nights in the winter, than the southern parts of the world..
Usage notes
The dative/instrumental is usually sumora, most likely by association with winter, with which this word is often found in collocation.
Declension
Declension of sumor (strong a-stem)
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