tot
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EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
tot (plural tots)
- A small child.
- He learned to run when he was just a tot.
- 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.
- 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
- (Britain, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
TranslationsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
Short for total (“to sum”).
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)
- To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (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 termsEdit
NounEdit
tot (plural tots)
- An addition of a long column of figures.
AnagramsEdit
AfrikaansEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Dutch tot, from Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”).
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
tot
PrepositionEdit
tot
AromanianEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tot (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)
PronounEdit
tot
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chinook JargonEdit
Crimean TatarEdit
DalmatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tōtus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.
AdjectiveEdit
tot (feminine tota, masculine plural toč)
PronounEdit
tot
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
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.
PronunciationEdit
ConjunctionEdit
tot
- until, till
- Ik kan niet wachten tot het hier ook weer gaat sneeuwen! ― I can't wait till it snows here as well!
PrepositionEdit
tot
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
AnagramsEdit
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old High German tōt (akin to Old Saxon dōd), from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død, Norwegian daud
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tot (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
| 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 termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- Tod m
Further readingEdit
- tot in Duden online
ItalianEdit
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).
PronunciationEdit
NumeralEdit
tot (indeclinable)
- so many
Coordinate termsEdit
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- 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
- 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
OccitanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)
PronounEdit
tot
Old FrenchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)
DeclensionEdit
AdverbEdit
tot
DescendantsEdit
Old High GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.
AdjectiveEdit
tōt
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- Middle High German: tōt
Old OccitanEdit
RomagnolEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.
PronunciationEdit
DeterminerEdit
tot m, n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)
DeclensionEdit
PronounEdit
tot
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- tot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language), 2004-2018