total
EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
- totall (obsolete)
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.
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
- (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]
Audio (US, California) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊtəl
NounEdit
total (plural totals)
- An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
- A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
- (informal, mathematics) Sum.
- The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.
SynonymsEdit
- (sum): sum
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- exponentiation:
- root extraction:
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
AdjectiveEdit
total (comparative more total, superlative most total)
- 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.
- (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
- He is a total failure.
- (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.
SynonymsEdit
- (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
Derived termsEdit
- total allergy syndrome
- total eclipse
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totally
- total order
- total war
- left total, right total
TranslationsEdit
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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)
- (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
- Synonym: sum
- When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
- To equal a total of; to amount to.
- That totals seven times so far.
- (transitive, US, slang) To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)
- 1972, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Billy the Mountain”:
- He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!
- (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
- It totals nearly a pound.
TranslationsEdit
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AnagramsEdit
AsturianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
AdjectiveEdit
total (epicene, plural totales)
NounEdit
total m (plural totales)
Derived termsEdit
CatalanEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, attested from the 16th century.[1]
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total (masculine and feminine plural totals)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
NounEdit
total m (plural totals)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further readingEdit
- “total” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “total” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “total” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
DanishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total
InflectionEdit
Inflection of total | |||
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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)
InflectionEdit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totalen | totaler | totalerne |
genitive | totals | totalens | totalers | totalernes |
Etymology 2Edit
Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)
InflectionEdit
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totallet | totaller | totallerne |
genitive | totals | totallets | totallers | totallernes |
SynonymsEdit
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)
NounEdit
total m (plural totaux)
- total
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “total”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
GalicianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
AdjectiveEdit
total m or f (plural totais)
NounEdit
total m (plural totais)
Further readingEdit
- “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
GermanEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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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
- totally
- Synonym: absolut
- (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
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
AdjectiveEdit
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
AdjectiveEdit
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total m or f (plural totais)
- complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
- Antonyms: incompleto, parcial
- 2005, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince] (Harry Potter; 6), Rio de Janeiro: Rocco, →ISBN, page 141:
- Quero conversar com os senhores e exijo sua total e absoluta atenção.
- I want to talk with you and I demand your complete and absolute attention.
- 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)
- 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
Related termsEdit
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis.
AdjectiveEdit
total (plural totales)
Derived termsEdit
AdverbEdit
total
- (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
- Total que no puedo venir.
- Basically, I can't come.
NounEdit
total m (plural totales)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit
Further readingEdit
- “total”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From German total, from French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
total (not comparable)
DeclensionEdit
Inflection of total | |||
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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 |
ReferencesEdit
AnagramsEdit
TagalogEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
totál
- (colloquial) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement: anyway; anyhow
- Synonym: kung sa bagay
NounEdit
totál