tot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tot"

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin. Compare totter, tottle. Compare also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. A small child.

   He learned to run when he was just a tot.

2. A measure of spirits, especially rum.
   • 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

     Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.

   • 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party

     And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

3. tater tot.
4. (UK, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

small child

• Catalan: infant (ca) m
• Finnish: napero (fi), pikkulapsi (fi)
• Galician: meniño (gl)
• Italian: bambino (it) m
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• Polish: brzdąc (pl)
• Russian: малы́ш (ru) m (malýš)
• Spanish: infante (es)

measure of spirits

• Catalan: glop (ca) m
• Finnish: tujaus
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Galician: fechiña f, parva f
• Italian: porzione (it) f, tot m
• Russian: стопка (ru) f (stopka)

Etymology 2

Short for total (“to sum”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tŏt, IPA^(key): /tɒt/

Verb

tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)

1. To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (UK, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

   a totted debt

Derived terms

• tot up

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. An addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams

• OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tot, from Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

Conjunction

tot

1. until

Preposition

tot

1. until

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• totu

Noun

tot m (plural toteanj)

1. old man
2. grandfather

Synonyms

• (old man): mosh, bitãrnu, aush, pap
• (grandfather): ghiush, pap

See also

• babã
• omã

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Catalan

Etymology

From , from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtot]

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)

1. all

   Antonym: cap

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

   Antonym: res

Derived terms

• del tot
• en tot cas
• tot i així, tot i això
• tot i que
• totpoderós

Further reading

• “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Chinook Jargon

Noun

tot

1. uncle

Coordinate terms

• (with regard to gender): kwalh

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

tot

1. rust, corrosion

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin tōtus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural toč)

1. all

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”), equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon tōte (“to, until”), Old Frisian tot (“until”), Old High German zuo ze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

• audio:

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• Hyphenation: tot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Preposition

tot

1. to, up to
2. until

Inflection

Pronominal adverbs of tot

preposition	tot
postpositional adv.	toe
+ het (it)	ertoe
+ dit (this)	hiertoe
+ dat (that)	daartoe
+ wat (what)	waartoe
+ iets (something)	ergens toe
+ niets (nothing)	nergens toe
+ alles (everything)	overal toe

Derived terms

• tot aan
• tot dan toe
• totdat
• tot en met
• tot nu toe
• tot op
• tot ziens

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tot

Conjunction

tot

1. until, till

   Ik kan niet wachten tot het hier ook weer gaat sneeuwen! ― I can't wait till it snows here as well!

Anagrams

• o.t.t.

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German tōt, from Old High German tōt (akin to Old Saxon dōd), from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toːt/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Tod

Adjective

tot (not comparable)

1. dead, deceased

Derived terms

• mausetot
• scheintot

Related terms

• Tod m

Further reading

• “tot” in Duden online

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Italian

Adjective

tot (invariable)

1. so many

Noun

tot m (uncountable)

1. so much

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit तति (táti), Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]

Determiner

tot (indeclinable)

1. so many

Derived terms

• totiēns/ totiēs
• totus

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	demonstrative			anaphoric	identity	interrogative/ relative	indefinite					negative	other
	proximal	medial	distal				relative	indefinite	universal	free choice	negative polarity
basic	hic	iste, istic	ille, illic	is	ipse, īdem	quis/quī	quisquis, quīcumque	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quispiam	quisque	quīvis, quīlibet	quisquam, ūllus, °aliquisquam	nēmō, nihil, nūllus	alius
dual						uter	utercumque	alteruter	uterque	utervīs, uterlibet		neuter	alter
place	hīc	istīc	illīc	ibī̆	ibī̆dem	ubī̆	ubiubi, ubī̆cumque	alicubī, uspiam	ubīque	ubivīs, ubilibet	usquam	nusquam, nūllibī	alibī, aliās
source	hinc	istinc	illinc	inde	indidem	unde	undecumque, undeunde	alicunde	undique	°undelibet			aliunde
destination	hūc, °hōrsum	istūc, °istōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	eō	eōdem	quō, quōrsum	quōquō, quōcumque	aliquō, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum		quōvīs, quōlibet	quōquam	nusquam, nūllōrsum	aliō, aliōrsum
method, means, path, place	hāc	istāc	illāc	eā	eādem	quā	quāquā, quācumque	aliquā	quāque	quāvīs, quālibet		nēquāquam, haudquāquam	aliā
manner	hōc modō	istō modō	illō modō	ita, sīc, eō modō	item, itidem	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	utique	quōmodolibet	ūllō modō	nūllō modō	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
time	num, nunc		ōlim	tum, tunc	simul	quandō, ‡cum	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	quondam, aliquandō	quandōque	quandōlibet	umquam	numquam	aliās
quantity				tam	†tamen, †tandem	quam	†quamquam	aliquam		quamvīs, quamlibet
size				tantus	tantusdem	quantus	quantuscumque	aliquantus		quantusvīs, quantuslibet
quality				tālis		quālis	quālis, quāliscumque	aliquālis		quālislibet
number				tot	totidem	quot	quotquot, quotcumque	aliquot		quotlibet
order				totus		quotus	quotuscumque	aliquotus		quotuslibet
repetition				totiēns		quotiēns	quotiēnscumque	aliquotiēns		quotiēnslibet
multiplication				totuplex		quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare ‡only used as a conjunction, not as an interrogative

References

• “tot”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tot”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tot in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/

• Audio (Béarn):

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Adjective

tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)

1. all
2. each, every

   Synonym: cada

Derived terms

• totjorn

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

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Old French

Alternative forms

• tut

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

1. all

Declension

Declension of tot

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	toz, tuit	tote	tot
	Oblique	tot			tote	tot
Plural	Subject	tot	totes		tot
	Oblique	toz, tuit			totes	tot

Adverb

tot

1. all; completely

Descendants

• Middle French: tout
  • French: tout

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

tōt

1. dead

Related terms

• tōd

Descendants

• Middle High German: tōt
  • Alemannic German:
    • Swabian: daod, dod
  • Bavarian: doud

    Cimbrian: tòat

  • Central Franconian: dut, dot

    Hunsrik: dot

    Luxembourgish: dout

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: duud

    Upper Saxon German:

  • East Franconian:
  • German: tot
  • Rhine Franconian: dut, dot
  • Yiddish: טויט (toyt)

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Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot (nominative singular tuih)

1. all

Descendants

• Catalan: tot

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Romagnol

Pronoun

tot

1. everyone

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Romanian

Etymology

From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tot/

Determiner

tot m or n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)

1. all, (the) whole
2. (in the plural) all, every

Declension

Declension of tot (determiner declension, indefinite only)

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	tot		toată	toți	toate
	definite	—		—	—	—
genitive/ dative	indefinite	—		—	tuturor	tuturor
	definite	—		—	—	—

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Derived terms

• atot-
• totdeauna
• totodată

References

• tot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) tut
• (Puter, Vallader) tuot

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adverb

tot

1. (Surmiran) all

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Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot

1. all