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total

See also: totál

English

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Etymology

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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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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

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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.
    • 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 145:
      Each member brought a unique musical influence to the total sound.
    • 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.
  4. (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
  5. (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
    Hyponyms: connected, complete, strongly connected

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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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Asturian

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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  • IPA(key): /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: to‧tal

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total (epicene, plural totales)

  1. total

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total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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Catalan

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

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total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)

  1. total

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total m (plural totals)

  1. total

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  1. ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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Danish

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Etymology 1

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From French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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  • IPA(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

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

  1. total
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Inflection of total
positive comparative superlative
indefinite common singular total — —2
indefinite 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.

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total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

  1. total
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Declension of total
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative total totalen totaler totalerne
genitive totals totalens totalers totalernes

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

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  • IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

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total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two
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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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French

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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

  1. total
    Antonym: partiel
  2. perfect

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total m (plural totaux)

  1. total
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Galician

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete, entire

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total m (plural totais)

  1. total

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German

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)

  1. total

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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

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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

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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Dutch totaal, from Middle Dutch totael, from Middle French total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”).

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total (comparative lebih total, superlative paling total)

  1. total:
    1. entire; relating to the whole of something
    2. complete; absolute

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total (plural total-total)

  1. total

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

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

  1. total

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

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

  1. total

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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

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

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total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
    Synonyms: completo, inteiro
    Antonyms: incompleto, parcial
  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.

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total m (plural totais)

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

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French total. By surface analysis, tot (“the whole”) +‎ -al.

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

  1. total

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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

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Etymology

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

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  • IPA(key): /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: to‧tal

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total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)

  1. total, complete, outright

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total

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

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total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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Swedish

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Etymology

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

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total (not comparable)

  1. total

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Inflection of total
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular total — —
neuter singular totalt — —
plural totala — —
masculine plural2 totale — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 totale — —
all totala — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al] (noun; adverb)
    • IPA(key): /ˈtotal/ [ˈt̪oː.t̪ɐl] (English influence) (noun)
  • Syllabification: to‧tal

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totál or total (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

  1. total; sum
    Synonym: kabuoan

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totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

  1. (colloquial) after all (anyway, in any case)
    Synonym: kung sa bagay
    Total, nandito ka naman na, tumulong ka na dito.
    After all, now that you're here, you can now help here.
  2. (colloquial) after all (introduces information that supports the preceding statement)
    Alam ko namang di ka makakatulong. Total, ayaw mong inuutusan.
    I know you won't be of help. After all, you don't like taking orders.

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  • “total”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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