total
English Edit
Alternative forms Edit
- totall (obsolete)
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.
Pronunciation Edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
- (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]
Audio (US, California) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊtəl
Noun Edit
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.
Synonyms Edit
- (sum): sum
Derived terms Edit
Translations Edit
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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
Adjective Edit
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.
Synonyms Edit
- (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
Derived terms Edit
- total allergy syndrome
- total eclipse
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totally
- total order
- total war
- left total, right total
Translations Edit
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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)
- (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.
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Anagrams Edit
Asturian Edit
Etymology Edit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective Edit
total (epicene, plural totales)
Noun Edit
total m (plural totales)
Derived terms Edit
Catalan Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis, attested from the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)
Derived terms Edit
Related terms Edit
Noun Edit
total m (plural totals)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading Edit
- “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.
Danish Edit
Etymology 1 Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total
Inflection Edit
Inflection of total | |||
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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)
Inflection Edit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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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
Noun Edit
total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)
Inflection Edit
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totallet | totaller | totallerne |
genitive | totals | totallets | totallers | totallernes |
Synonyms Edit
French Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)
Noun Edit
total m (plural totaux)
- total
Related terms Edit
Further reading Edit
- “total”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician Edit
Etymology Edit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective Edit
total m or f (plural totais)
Noun Edit
total m (plural totais)
Further reading Edit
- “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)
Declension Edit
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 |
Adverb Edit
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 reading Edit
Norwegian Bokmål Edit
Etymology Edit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
Adjective Edit
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk Edit
Etymology Edit
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
Adjective Edit
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
Derived terms Edit
References Edit
- “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese Edit
Etymology Edit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total m or f (plural totais)
- complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
- Synonyms: completo, inteiro
- 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.
Noun Edit
total m (plural totais)
- 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.
Related terms Edit
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)
Declension Edit
Spanish Edit
Etymology Edit
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)
Derived terms Edit
Adverb Edit
total
- (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
- Total que no puedo venir.
- Basically, I can't come.
Noun Edit
total m (plural totales)
Derived terms Edit
See also Edit
Further reading Edit
- “total”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish Edit
Etymology Edit
From German total, from French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation Edit
Adjective Edit
total (not comparable)
Declension Edit
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 |
References Edit
Anagrams Edit
Tagalog Edit
Etymology Edit
Pronunciation Edit
Adverb Edit
totál
- (colloquial) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement: anyway; anyhow
- Synonym: kung sa bagay
Noun Edit
totál