summarize

English

Alternative forms

• summarise (Commonwealth)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English summary

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

English summarize

From summary + -ize.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/

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Verb

summarize (third-person singular simple present summarizes, present participle summarizing, simple past and past participle summarized)

1. (ambitransitive) To prepare a summary of (something).

   Jim was asked to summarize the document by Wednesday.

2. (ambitransitive) To give a recapitulation of the salient facts; to recapitulate or review.

   Synonym: sum up

   After the meeting, Jim summarized the major decisions made.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with the similar-sounding summerize.

Synonyms

• précis

Derived terms

• missummarize
• summarizable
• summarization
• summarizer
• unsummarized

Translations

to prepare a summary

• Arabic: لَخَّصَ (laḵḵaṣa), اِخْتَصَرَ (ar) (iḵtaṣara)
• Armenian: ամփոփել (hy) (ampʻopʻel)
• Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq
• Basque: laburbildu
• Bulgarian: резюми́рам (bg) (rezjumíram)
• Catalan: resumir (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 摘要 (zh) (zhāiyào), 總結 / 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié)

• Cornish: berrskrifa
• Dutch: samenvatten (nl), opsommen (nl), puren (nl), uitpuren (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tiivistää (fi)
• French: résumer (fr), récapituler (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: zusammenfassen (de)
• Hebrew: סיכם (sikém)
• Hungarian: összefoglal (hu)
• Irish: achoimrigh
• Italian: riassumere (it)
• Japanese: 要約する (ja) (ようやくする, yōyaku suru)
• Kazakh: нәтижелеу (nätijeleu)
• Korean: 요약하다 (ko) (yoyakhada)
• Latin: consummo
• Malay: merumuskan
• Māori: whakarāpopoto, whakarāpopoto
• Persian: خلاصه کردن (fa) (xolâse kardan)
• Polish: podsumowywać (pl) impf, podsumować (pl) pf, streszczać (pl) impf, streścić (pl) pf, reasumować (pl) impf, zreasumować pf
• Portuguese: resumir (pt)
• Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ), конспекти́ровать (ru) (konspektírovatʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air
• Spanish: resumir (es)
• Swedish: sammanfatta (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: özetlemek (tr)
• Vietnamese: tóm lược (vi), tóm tắt (vi), tóm lại (vi)

to give a recapitulation of salient facts; to recapitulate or review

• Armenian: ամփոփել (hy) (ampʻopʻel)
• Azerbaijani: yekunlaşdırmaq
• Bulgarian: обобщавам (bg) (obobštavam)
• Catalan: recapitular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總結 / 总结 (zh) (zǒngjié)

• Esperanto: resumi (eo)
• Finnish: tiivistää (fi), esittää lyhyesti
• French: récapituler (fr)
• German: zusammenfassen (de)
• Greek: ανακεφαλαιώνω (el) (anakefalaióno)
• Irish: achoimrigh
• Italian: riassumere (it)
• Kazakh: жинақтау (jinaqtau)
• Macedonian: сумира impf or pf (sumira), обопшти pf (obopšti), обопштува impf (obopštuva)
• Māori: whakarāpopoto
• Polish: sumować (pl) impf, zsumowywać impf, zsumować pf
• Russian: обобща́ть (ru) impf (obobščátʹ), обобщи́ть (ru) pf (obobščítʹ); подводи́ть ито́г (ru) impf (podvodítʹ itóg), подвести́ ито́г pf (podvestí itóg); подыто́живать (ru) impf (podytóživatʹ), подыто́жить (ru) pf (podytóžitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: thoir geàrr-chunntas air
• Spanish: resumir (es), recapitular (es)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Czech: shrnout (cs)
• Finnish: tehdä yhteenveto
• Portuguese: resumir (pt)