Wiktionary

total

See also: totál

English Edit

Alternative forms Edit

Etymology Edit

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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Noun Edit

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

Adjective Edit

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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Verb Edit

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 Edit

Etymology Edit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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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 Edit

Etymology Edit

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

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Adjective Edit

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)

  1. total

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Noun Edit

total m (plural totals)

  1. total

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References Edit

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

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Danish Edit

Etymology 1 Edit

From French total.

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

Adjective Edit

total

  1. total
Inflection Edit
Inflection of total
Positive Comparative Superlative
Indefinte 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.

Noun Edit

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

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

Etymology 2 Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

  • IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

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total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two
Inflection Edit
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 Edit

Etymology Edit

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 Edit

Etymology Edit

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 Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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Adjective Edit

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)

  1. total

Declension Edit

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

Adverb Edit

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 reading Edit

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

Norwegian Bokmål Edit

Etymology Edit

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

Adjective Edit

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

  1. total

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Norwegian Nynorsk Edit

Etymology Edit

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 Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

  • 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 Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Adjective Edit

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

  1. total

Declension Edit

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

Spanish Edit

Etymology Edit

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

Pronunciation Edit

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

Adjective Edit

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)

  1. total, complete, outright

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Adverb Edit

total

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

Noun Edit

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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Swedish Edit

Etymology Edit

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

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Adjective Edit

total (not comparable)

  1. total

Declension Edit

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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Tagalog Edit

Etymology Edit

Borrowed from Spanish total.

Pronunciation Edit

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

Adverb Edit

totál

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

Noun Edit

totál

  1. total; sum
    Synonym: kabuoan

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