summa cum laude

From Latin summā cum laude (“with the greatest praise”).

• Rhymes: -aʊdi

summa cum laude (not comparable)

1. With highest (of three degrees of) praise; as noted, as an honor, on diplomas and degrees for work that is considered to be of the highest quality.

   Coordinate terms: cum laude, magna cum laude

   Nancy graduated from the university summa cum laude.

• cum laude
• egregia cum laude
• magna cum laude

• Latin honors on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• IPA^(key): /ˈzʊma kʊm ˈlaʊ̯də/

summa cum laude

1. summa cum laude

   Synonym: sehr gut mit Auszeichnung

• Nowadays the Latin form is generally used for doctorates only.

• cum laude = gut
• magna cum laude = sehr gut

From cum (“with”, preposition) + the ablatives of summa (“highest, utmost”) and laus (“praise”), with the adjective being idiomatically/emphatically fronted across the preposition.

summā cum laude (not comparable)

1. with the highest or utmost praise

Unadapted borrowing from Latin summā cum laude.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsum.ma ˈkum ˈlaw.dɛ/

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• Syllabification: sum‧ma kum lau‧de

summa cum laude (not comparable)

1. (education, postpositive) summa cum laude

• summa cum laude in Polish dictionaries at PWN