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 summoneō, summonēre (“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
• Irish: toghairm (ga) f

• Japanese: 呼び出し (ja) (yobi-dashi)
• Russian: вызов (ru) (vyzov) m

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, toghairm (ga) f
• 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.