total

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English[edit]

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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.
    • 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.

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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.

Adjective[edit]

total (epicene, plural totales)

  1. total

Noun[edit]

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis. First attested in 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, 2024

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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.

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total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

  1. total
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Etymology 2[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

Noun[edit]

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two
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French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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Adjective[edit]

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

  1. total
    Antonym: partiel
  2. perfect

Noun[edit]

total m (plural totaux)

  1. total

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Galician[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Adjective[edit]

total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete, entire

Noun[edit]

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

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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.

Adjective[edit]

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

Adjective[edit]

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

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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]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Spanish total.

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Adverb[edit]

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

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

Noun[edit]

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

  1. total; sum
    Synonym: kabuoan

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