tot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tot"

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English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin. Compare totter, tottle. Compare also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. A small child.

   He learned to run when he was just a tot.

2. A measure of spirits, especially rum.
   • 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

     Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.

   • 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party

     And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

3. (Britain, dialectal, dated) A foolish fellow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

small child

• Catalan: infant (ca) m
• Finnish: napero, pikkulapsi (fi)
• Polish: brzdąc (pl)

• Russian: малы́ш (ru) m (malýš)
• Spanish: infante (es)

measure of spirits

• Catalan: glop (ca) m

Etymology 2

Short for total (“to sum”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŏt, IPA^(key): /tɒt/

Verb

tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)

1. To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (Britain, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

   a totted debt

Derived terms

• tot up

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. An addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams

• OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tot, from Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

Conjunction

tot

1. until

Preposition

tot

1. until

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• totu

Noun

tot m (plural toteanj)

1. old man
2. grandfather

Synonyms

• (old man): mosh, bitãrnu, aush, pap
• (grandfather): ghiush, pap

See also

• babã
• omã

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Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtot/

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)

1. all

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Derived terms

• del tot
• tot i així, tot i això
• tot i que

Further reading

• “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Chinook Jargon

Noun

tot

1. uncle

Coordinate terms

• (with regards to gender): kwalh

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

tot

1. rust, corrosion

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tōtus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural toč)

1. all

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”), equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon tōte (“to, until”), Old Frisian tot (“until”), Old High German zuo ze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

Conjunction

tot

1. until, till

   Ik kan niet wachten tot het hier ook weer gaat sneeuwen! ― I can't wait till it snows here as well!

Preposition

tot

1. to, up to
2. until

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of tot

preposition	tot
postpositional adv.	toe
+ het (it)	ertoe
+ dit (this)	hiertoe
+ dat (that)	daartoe
+ wat (what)	waartoe
+ iets (something)	ergens toe
+ niets (nothing)	nergens toe
+ alles (everything)	overal toe

Derived terms

• tot aan
• tot op
• tot en met
• tot nu toe
• tot dan toe
• tot ziens

Anagrams

• o.t.t.

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German

Etymology

From Old High German tōt (akin to Old Saxon dōd), from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død, Norwegian daud

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːt/

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• Homophone: Tod

Adjective

tot (not comparable)

1. dead, deceased

Declension

Declension of tot

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist tot	sie ist tot	es ist tot	sie sind tot
strong declension (without article)	nominative	toter	tote	totes	tote
	genitive	toten	toter	toten	toter
	dative	totem	toter	totem	toten
	accusative	toten	tote	totes	tote
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der tote	die tote	das tote	die toten
	genitive	des toten	der toten	des toten	der toten
	dative	dem toten	der toten	dem toten	den toten
	accusative	den toten	die tote	das tote	die toten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein toter	eine tote	ein totes	(keine) toten
	genitive	eines toten	einer toten	eines toten	(keiner) toten
	dative	einem toten	einer toten	einem toten	(keinen) toten
	accusative	einen toten	eine tote	ein totes	(keine) toten

Derived terms

• mausetot
• scheintot

Related terms

• Tod m

Further reading

• tot in Duden online

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Italian

Adjective

tot (invariable)

1. so many

Noun

tot m (invariable)

1. so much

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [tɔt]

Numeral

tot (indeclinable)

1. so many

Coordinate terms

• quot

Derived terms

• totiēns/ totiēs
• totus

References

• tot in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tot in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tot in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/

Adjective

tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)

1. all

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

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Old French

Alternative forms

• tut

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

1. all

Declension

Declension of tot

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	toz, tuit	tote	tot
	Oblique	tot	tote	tot
Plural	Subject	tot	totes	tot
	Oblique	toz, tuit	totes	tot

Adverb

tot

1. all; completely

Descendants

• Middle French: tout
  • French: tout

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

tōt

1. dead

Related terms

• tōd

Descendants

• Middle High German: tōt
  • Central Franconian: dut
  • German: tot
  • Luxembourgish: dout, doudeg
  • Yiddish: טויט‎ (toyt)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot (nominative singular tuih)

1. all

Descendants

• Catalan: tot

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Romagnol

Pronoun

tot

1. everyone

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tot/

Determiner

tot m, n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)

1. all, (the) whole
2. (in the plural) all, every

Declension

declension of tot (determiner declension, indefinite only)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	tot		toată	toți	toate
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	—		—	tuturor	tuturor
	definite	—		—	—	—

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Derived terms

• atot-
• totdeauna
• totodată

References

• tot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2018

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) tut
• (Puter, Vallader) tuot

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adverb

tot

1. (Surmiran) all

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot

1. all