lettre de sommen.

Brit.

/ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɒm/, U.S.

/ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɔm/,

/ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɑm/

Inflections: Plural lettres de somme.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French lettre de somme.

Etymology: < French lettre de somme (1766 or earlier) < lettre letter n.¹ + de de prep. + somme sum n.¹The semantic motivation is uncertain; compare:1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. iv. 63 The lettre de somme is said (without much authority) to derive its name from the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas, for which..it was early employed.In plural form lettres de somme after the French plural form.

= rotunda n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > rotunda

lettre de somme1789

rotunda1927

1789 J. Edwards Catal. Select Coll. Anc. & Mod. Bks. 48 The Character is what has been distinguished by the Name of Lettres de Somme.

1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries i. 54 The Lettre de Somme of the Germans..became in the hands of the fifteenth century printers a rival to the Gothic.

1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. 289 Certain of the smaller sizes used by Wynkyn de Worde and Grafton..seem very definitely to have that feeling of breadth and openness which is characteristic of the lettre de somme.

1977 New Eng. Q. 50 401 For occasional use, a Pica English Black was purchased in 1898 and French Lettre Batarde and Lettre de Somme in 1901.

1994 L. G. Cochrane tr. H.-J. Martin Hist. & Power of Writing (1995) vii. 303 They continued to use certain typefaces for certain types of publication.., keeping to lettres de formes for liturgy, lettres de somme for theology, [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	lettre de somme
释义	lettre de sommen. Brit. /ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɒm/, U.S. /ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɔm/, /ˌlɛtr(ə) də ˈsɑm/ Inflections: Plural lettres de somme. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French lettre de somme. Etymology: < French lettre de somme (1766 or earlier) < lettre letter n.¹ + de de prep. + somme sum n.¹The semantic motivation is uncertain; compare:1922 D. B. Updike Printing Types I. iv. 63 The lettre de somme is said (without much authority) to derive its name from the Summa of St. Thomas Aquinas, for which..it was early employed.In plural form lettres de somme after the French plural form. = rotunda n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > style of type > [noun] > type face or font > rotunda lettre de somme1789 rotunda1927 1789 J. Edwards Catal. Select Coll. Anc. & Mod. Bks. 48 The Character is what has been distinguished by the Name of Lettres de Somme. 1887 T. B. Reed Hist. Old Eng. Letter Foundries i. 54 The Lettre de Somme of the Germans..became in the hands of the fifteenth century printers a rival to the Gothic. 1927 R. B. McKerrow Introd. Bibliogr. 289 Certain of the smaller sizes used by Wynkyn de Worde and Grafton..seem very definitely to have that feeling of breadth and openness which is characteristic of the lettre de somme. 1977 New Eng. Q. 50 401 For occasional use, a Pica English Black was purchased in 1898 and French Lettre Batarde and Lettre de Somme in 1901. 1994 L. G. Cochrane tr. H.-J. Martin Hist. & Power of Writing (1995) vii. 303 They continued to use certain typefaces for certain types of publication.., keeping to lettres de formes for liturgy, lettres de somme for theology, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1789
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