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somma

Syllables: som·maUK/ˈsɒm.ə/US/ˈsɑ.mə/

somma noun: a volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.

Noun

somma (plural sommas)

  1. A volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.
    • Eventually, a renewed edifice may grow large enough even to bury its somma, or sommas, completely, leaving no clue in its shape to a history of former catastrophe(s).2013, John P. Lockwood, Richard W. Hazlett, Volcanoes: Global Perspectives

Proper noun capitalized: Somma

Somma (plural Sommas)

  1. A surname from Italian.

somma meaning in Tamil

somma in Tamil

எரிமலை விளிம்பு

Forms of somma

Noun
pluralsommas
Proper noun
pluralSommas

Origin of somma

Named after Mount Somma, a stratovolcano in southern Italy with a summit caldera in which the upper cone of Mount Vesuvius has grown.

Borrowed from Italian Somma.

Words that rhyme with somma

Questions about somma

What does somma mean?
Somma means a volcanic caldera that has been partially filled by a new central cone.
What is somma in Tamil?
Somma in Tamil is எரிமலை விளிம்பு. See Somma meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is somma?
Somma can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce somma?
Somma is pronounced /ˈsɒm.ə/ (UK).
What is the plural of somma?
The plural of somma is sommas.

Words near somma in the dictionary

  1. somitocoels
  2. somitogenesis
  3. somitomere
  4. somitomeres
  5. somm
  6. somma
  7. sommage
  8. sommas
  9. sommat
  10. Somme
  11. sommelier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: somma (page history and authors); Somma (page history and authors); somma (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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