summons

Meanings

Noun

• A call to do something, especially to come.
• A notice summoning someone to appear in court, as a defendant, juror or witness.
• A demand for surrender.

Verb

• To serve someone with a summons.
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of summon

Origin

• From Middle English somouns, borrowed from Old French sumunce (modern semonce), from Vulgar Latin *summonsa, a noun use of the feminine past participle of summoneo.