tot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "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

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

NounEdit

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, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.

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

TranslationsEdit

small child

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

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

measure of spirits

• Catalan: glop (ca) m

Etymology 2Edit

Short for total (“to sum”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: tŏt, IPA^(key): /tɒt/

VerbEdit

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 termsEdit

• tot up

NounEdit

tot (plural tots)

1. An addition of a long column of figures.

AnagramsEdit

• OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

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AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

ConjunctionEdit

tot

1. until

PrepositionEdit

tot

1. until

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AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• totu

NounEdit

tot m (plural toteanj)

1. old man
2. grandfather

SynonymsEdit

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

See alsoEdit

• babã
• omã

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

PronunciationEdit

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

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. all

PronounEdit

tot

1. everything

Derived termsEdit

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

Further readingEdit

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

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Chinook JargonEdit

NounEdit

tot

1. uncle

Coordinate termsEdit

• (with regards to gender): kwalh

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Crimean TatarEdit

NounEdit

tot

1. rust, corrosion

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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)

1. all

PronounEdit

tot

1. everything

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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

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔt

ConjunctionEdit

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!

PrepositionEdit

tot

1. to, up to
2. until

InflectionEdit

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 termsEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

• o.t.t.

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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

• IPA^(key): /toːt/

• Audio

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• Homophone: Tod

AdjectiveEdit

tot (not comparable)

1. dead, deceased

DeclensionEdit

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 termsEdit

• mausetot
• scheintot

Related termsEdit

• Tod m

Further readingEdit

• tot in Duden online

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ItalianEdit

AdjectiveEdit

tot (invariable)

1. so many

NounEdit

tot m (invariable)

1. so much

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LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [tɔt]

NumeralEdit

tot (indeclinable)

1. so many

Coordinate termsEdit

• quot

Derived termsEdit

• totiēns/ totiēs
• totus

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
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tut/

AdjectiveEdit

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

1. all

PronounEdit

tot

1. everything

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Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

• tut

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tōtus.

AdjectiveEdit

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

1. all

DeclensionEdit

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

AdverbEdit

tot

1. all; completely

DescendantsEdit

• Middle French: tout
  • French: tout

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Old High GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

AdjectiveEdit

tōt

1. dead

Related termsEdit

• tōd

DescendantsEdit

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

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Old OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tōtus.

AdjectiveEdit

tot (nominative singular tuih)

1. all

DescendantsEdit

• Catalan: tot

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RomagnolEdit

PronounEdit

tot

1. everyone

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /tot/

DeterminerEdit

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

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

DeclensionEdit

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	—		—	—	—

PronounEdit

tot

1. everything

Derived termsEdit

• atot-
• totdeauna
• totodată

ReferencesEdit

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

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RomanschEdit

Alternative formsEdit

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

EtymologyEdit

From Latin tōtus.

AdverbEdit

tot

1. (Surmiran) all

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WalloonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

AdjectiveEdit

tot

1. all