🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

resumo

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʁeˈzu.mu

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Summing-up/ˈsʌm.ɪŋ ʌp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Este é um breve resumo da nossa discussão."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A brief statement that gives the most important information about something.

    "Here is a quick summing-up of the meeting's main decisions."
  2. 2

    A judge's review of the evidence at the end of a trial before the jury begins deliberations.

    "The judge spent two hours delivering his summing-up to the jury."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the phrasal verb 'sum up', combining the Middle English 'sum', from Old French 'summe', and the Germanic particle 'up'. Historically developed in legal and rhetorical contexts to denote the act of bringing together main points into a concise review or conclusion.

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