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sumario

Spanish, noun

sumario is spelled S-U-M-A-R-I-O (7 letters) and appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish, the 18,761st most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Sumario is a Spanish masculine noun meaning “summary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first-person singular present indicative of sumariar. With an accent, sumarió is a different word: “third-person singular preterite indicative of sumariar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “Resumen, compendio o suma”.

What does sumario mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    summary

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesummary

  2. 2

    masculinesummary

  3. 3

    masculinetable of contents

verb

  1. 1

    first-person singular present indicative of sumariar

verb

as sumarió
  1. 1

    third-person singular preterite indicative of sumariar

Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Spanish dictionaries define it

adjective: 1. Reducido a compendio; breve, sucinto. 2. Aplícase a determinados juicios civiles en que se procede brevemente y se prescinde de algunas formalidades o trámites del juicio ordinario.

noun: 1. Resumen, compendio o suma. 2. Conjunto de actuaciones encaminadas a preparar el juicio criminal, haciendo constar la perpetración de los delitos con las circunstancias que puedan influir en su calificación, determinar la culpabilidad y prevenir el castigo de los delincuentes. 3. En una noticia, frase apartada del cuerpo con una letra de mayor tamaño para hacer resaltar algún hecho o dato importante.

The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.

Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of sumario

  • sumaria feminine
  • sumarios masculine plural
  • sumarias feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to sumario

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is sumario in Spanish?

sumario appears 2.6 times per million words in written Spanish.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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