summons

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈsʌmənz/

Etymology 1

From Old French sumunce (modern French semonce), from popular Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summonere ‘to summon’.

Noun

summons (plural summonses)

1. A call to do something, especially to come.
2. (law) A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.

Translations

call to do something, especially to come

Finnish: kutsu (fi) German: Aufforderung (de) f.

Japanese: 呼び出し (ja) (yobi-dashi)

notice summoning someone to appear in court

Czech: předvolání (cs) n. Finnish: haaste (fi) French: citation à comparaître (fr) f. German: Vorladung (de) f.

Irish: fógra (ga) m. Japanese: 召喚 (ja) (shōkan) Russian: повестка (ru) (povéstka) f.

Verb

summons (third-person singular simple present summonses, present participle summonsing, simple past and past participle summonsed)

1. (transitive) To serve someone with a summons.
   • 2007: It proposes that those held in the prototype Selfridges cells be kept for a maximum of four hours to have their identity confirmed and be charged, summonsed or given a fine. — The Guardian, 15 Mar 2007, p. 1

See also

• Summons on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• summons in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

summons

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon.