Wiktionary

total

See also: totál

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) +‎ -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.

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NounEdit

total (plural totals)

  1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
    A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
  2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.
    The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

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Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

AdjectiveEdit

total (comparative more total, superlative most total)

  1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.
    The total book is rubbish from start to finish.  The total number of votes cast is 3,270.
    • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter II, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
      Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
  2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
    He is a total failure.
  3. (mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.
    The Ackermann function is one of the simplest and earliest examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive.

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VerbEdit

total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled)

  1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
    Synonym: sum
    When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
  2. To equal a total of; to amount to.
    That totals seven times so far.
  3. (transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
    Synonyms: demolish, trash, wreck
    Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
  4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
    It totals nearly a pound.

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AsturianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

AdjectiveEdit

total (epicene, plural totales)

  1. total

NounEdit

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, attested from the 16th century.[1]

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AdjectiveEdit

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

  1. total

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NounEdit

total m (plural totals)

  1. total

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

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DanishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From French total.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

AdjectiveEdit

total

  1. total
InflectionEdit
Inflection of total
Positive Comparative Superlative
Common singular total — —2
Neuter singular totalt — —2
Plural totale — —2
Definite attributive1 totale — —
1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used.
2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.

NounEdit

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

  1. total
InflectionEdit
Declension of total
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative total totalen totaler totalerne
genitive totals totalens totalers totalernes

Etymology 2Edit

Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

NounEdit

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two
InflectionEdit
Declension of total
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative total totallet totaller totallerne
genitive totals totallets totallers totallernes
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FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)

  1. total
    Antonym: partiel
  2. perfect

NounEdit

total m (plural totaux)

  1. total

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GalicianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

AdjectiveEdit

total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete, entire

NounEdit

total m (plural totais)

  1. total

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GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)

  1. total

DeclensionEdit

Positive forms of total (uncomparable)
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter
predicative er ist total sie ist total es ist total sie sind total
strong declension
(without article) 		nominative totaler totale totales totale
genitive totalen totaler totalen totaler
dative totalem totaler totalem totalen
accusative totalen totale totales totale
weak declension
(with definite article) 		nominative der totale die totale das totale die totalen
genitive des totalen der totalen des totalen der totalen
dative dem totalen der totalen dem totalen den totalen
accusative den totalen die totale das totale die totalen
mixed declension
(with indefinite article) 		nominative ein totaler eine totale ein totales (keine) totalen
genitive eines totalen einer totalen eines totalen (keiner) totalen
dative einem totalen einer totalen einem totalen (keinen) totalen
accusative einen totalen eine totale ein totales (keine) totalen

AdverbEdit

total

  1. totally
    Synonym: absolut
  2. (colloquial) big time, full-on, flat-out
    total übertrieben
    massively exaggerated
    total zugekifft
    stoned out of one's mind
    total betrunken
    dead drunk

Further readingEdit

  • “total” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “total” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “total” in Duden online

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

AdjectiveEdit

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

  1. total

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

AdjectiveEdit

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

  1. total

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PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).

PronunciationEdit

  • Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
  • Hyphenation: to‧tal

AdjectiveEdit

total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
    Antonyms: incompleto, parcial
    Synonyms: completo, inteiro
  2. total (relating to the whole of something)
    A quantidade total de livros nesta biblioteca é mais de um milhão.
    The total amount of books in this library is more than a million.

NounEdit

total m (plural totais)

  1. total (amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts)
    O total de livros nesta biblioteca é mais de um milhão.
    The total amount of books in this library is more than a million.
    Synonym: totalidade

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RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French total.

AdjectiveEdit

total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)

  1. total

DeclensionEdit

Declension of total
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite total totală totali totale
definite totalul totala totalii totalele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite total totale totali totale
definite totalului totalei totalilor totalelor

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) +‎ -ālis.

AdjectiveEdit

total (plural totales)

  1. total, complete, outright

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AdverbEdit

total

  1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
    Total que no puedo venir.
    Basically, I can't come.

NounEdit

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From German total, from French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

total (not comparable)

  1. total

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of total
Indefinite Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular total — —
Neuter singular totalt — —
Plural totala — —
Masculine plural3 totale — —
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 totale — —
All totala — —
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
3) Dated or archaic

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TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish total.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: to‧tal
  • IPA(key): /toˈtal/, [toˈtal]

AdverbEdit

totál

  1. (colloquial) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement: anyway; anyhow
    Synonym: kung sa bagay

NounEdit

totál

  1. total; sum
    Synonym: kabuoan

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