tot

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tot"

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /tɒt/
(US) enPR: tŏt, IPA^(key): /tɑt/
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒt
Homophones: taught, taut (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

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”).

Noun

tot (plural tots)

A small child.
He learned to run when he was just a tot.
- 1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World‎, Chatto & Windus:
  Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.
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.
Ellipsis of tater tot.
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A foolish fellow.
- a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland:
  Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

Translations

small child

Bulgarian: малчуган (bg) m (malčugan)
Catalan: infant (ca) m
Czech: capart (cs) m, škvrně (cs) n, prcek (cs) m
Finnish: napero (fi), pikkulapsi (fi)
French: tout-petit (fr) m
Galician: meniño (gl)
Italian: bambino (it) m
Polish: brzdąc (pl), berbeć (pl) m
Russian: малы́ш (ru) m (malýš)
Spanish: infante (es)
Ukrainian: маля́ (maljá), малю́к (maljúk)

measure of spirits

Catalan: glop (ca) m
Finnish: tujaus
Galician: fechiña f, parva f
Italian: porzione (it) f, tot (it) m
Russian: стопка (ru) f (stopka)
Ukrainian: ча́рка (čárka)

Etymology 2

Clipping of total (“to sum”)

Verb

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

To sum or total.
- 2017: Paul Lockhart, Arithmetic
  There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
(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)

A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams

OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɔt/
Audio (file)

Conjunction

tot

until

Preposition

tot

until

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin totus.

Adjective

tot

all

Aromanian

Alternative forms

totu

Noun

tot m (plural toteanj)

old man
grandfather

Synonyms

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Classical Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtot/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ot

Adjective

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

all
Antonym: cap

Pronoun

tot

everything
Antonym: res

Derived terms

amb tot
a tot estirar
del tot
en tot cas
fins i tot
tot amb tot
tota pedra fa paret
tot d'una
tothora
tot i
tot i així
tot i això
tot i que
tot just
tot plegat
totpoderós
tot sol

Chinook Jargon

Noun

tot

uncle

Coordinate terms

(with regard to gender): kwalh

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tot

rust, corrosion

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)

all

Pronoun

tot

everything

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 (file)
Hyphenation: tot
Rhymes: -ɔt

Preposition

tot

to, up to
until
(telephony, Suriname) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt tot..."
- 2020 August 25, Gerold Rozenblad, “Tafra drai [The table has turned]”, in De Ware Tijd‎, retrieved 14 July 2021:
  Gaat een telefoon over ergens in Paramaribo. "Ja, halloo tot Rabin."
  A phone rings somewhere in Paramaribo. "Yes, hello. This is Rabin."
Synonym: (Netherlands) met

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 dusver
tot en met
tot heden
tot nader orde
tot nu toe
tot op
tot op heden
tot ziens

Descendants

Afrikaans: tot
Berbice Creole Dutch: tutu
Jersey Dutch: tut, tût
Negerhollands: tot, tee

Conjunction

tot

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.

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 (file)
Homophone: Tod

Adjective

tot (strong nominative masculine singular toter, not comparable)

dead, deceased

Declension

Positive forms of tot (uncomparable)

number & gender		singular			plural
number & gender		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist tot	sie ist tot	es ist tot	sie sind tot
strong declension (without article)	nominative	toter	tote	totes	tote
	genitive	toten	toter	toten	toter
	dative	totem	toter	totem	toten
	accusative	toten	tote	totes	tote
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der tote	die tote	das tote	die toten
	genitive	des toten	der toten	des toten	der toten
	dative	dem toten	der toten	dem toten	den toten
	accusative	den toten	die tote	das tote	die toten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein toter	eine tote	ein totes	(keine) toten
	genitive	eines toten	einer toten	eines toten	(keiner) toten
	dative	einem toten	einer toten	einem toten	(keinen) toten
	accusative	einen toten	eine tote	ein totes	(keine) toten

Derived terms

mausetot
scheintot

Related terms

Tod m

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin tot.

Adjective

tot (invariable)

so many

Noun

tot m (invariable)

so much

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]

Determiner

tot (indeclinable)

so many
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.229:
  Quid faciant paucī contrā tot mīlia fortēs?
  What can a few brave men do against so many thousands [of soldiers]?
  (Ovid here recounts the Battle of the Cremera.)

Derived terms

totiēns/ totiēs
totus

Related terms

Latin correlatives ^(edit)

type	interrogative	indefinite	(medial) demonstrative	proximal demonstrative	distal demonstrative	relative	indefinite relative	identity	other
basic	quis, quī	quis, quī, quīdam, aliquis, aliquī, quisque, quisquam, aliquisquam, quispiam, ūllus	is, iste, istic	hic	ille, illic	quī	quisquis, quīcumque	ipse, īdem	alter, alius
dual	uter	alteruter, uterque				uter	utercumque
number	quot	aliquot	tot			quot	quotquot, quotcumque	totidem
order	quotus		totus			quotus	quotuscumque
quantity	quam	aliquam	tam			quam	†quamquam	†tamen, †tandem
size	quantus	aliquantus	tantus			quantus	quantuscumque	tantusdem
quality	quālis	aliquālis	tālis			quālis	quālis, quāliscumque
manner	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utique, quī, quōdam modō, aliquō modō	ita, sic, eō/istō modō	hōc modō	illō modō	ut, quī, quō modō, quōmodo, quemadmodum	utut, utcumque, quōmodocumque	item, itidem	aliter, aliōquī, alterō/aliō modō
method, path, place	quā	aliquā, quāque	eā, istāc	hāc	illāc	quā	quāquā, quācumque	eādem	aliā
place	ubi	alicubi, ubique, usquam, uspiam	ibi, istic	hīc	illīc	ubi	ubiubi, ubicumque	ibidem	alibī, aliās
source	unde	alicunde, undeunde	inde, istinc	hinc	illinc	unde	undecumque	indidem	aliunde
destination	quō, quōrsum	aliquō, quōquam, quōpiam, °aliquōvorsum	eō, istūc, °istōrsum	hūc, °hōrsum	illūc, °illōrsum	quō	quōquō, quōcumque	eōdem	aliō, aliorsum
time	quandō	quondam, aliquandō, quandōque, umquam	tum, tunc	num, nunc	ōlim	cum, quandō	cumque, quandōcumque, quandōque	simul	aliās
exact time	quota hōra		ea/ista hōra	hac hōra	illa hōra	quota hōra	quotacumque hōra	eadem hōra	altera/alia hōra
repetition	quotiēns	aliquotiēns	totiēns			quotiēns	quotiēnscumque
multiplication	quotuplex		totuplex			quotuplex
† Turned conjunction with original meaning somewhat dissimulated ° Rare

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, 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

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Classical Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tut/
Audio (Béarn) (file)

Adjective

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

all
each, every
Synonym: cada

Derived terms

totjorn

Pronoun

tot

everything

Derived terms

subretot
sustot

Old French

Alternative forms

tut

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

all

Declension

Declension of tot

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

Adverb

tot

all; completely

Descendants

Middle French: tout
- French: tout

Old High German

Etymology

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

Adjective

tōt

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

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot (nominative singular tuih)

all

Romagnol

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Latin tōtus.

Pronoun

tot

everyone

Romanian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tot/[1]
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -ot

Etymology 1

From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo. First attested in the Hurmuzaki Psalter, dated to circa 1500–1510.

Adverb

tot

still, nevertheless, anyway
Nu aveam voie, dar tot m-am dus.
I wasn’t allowed to, but still went.
repeatedly or unceasingly
E greu să adormi când tot auzi lovituri.
It’s hard to fall asleep when you’re hearing knocks all the time.
indicating a second occurrence: also, as well; again
tot atât ― just as much
tot așa ― in the same way
În București e Palatul Parlamentului, iar Palatul Justiției tot acolo este.
The Palace of the Parliament is in Bucharest, and the Palace of Justice is also there.
Tot eu sunt. ― It’s me again.
(modifying mai) increasingly (yielding more and more, ever more)
- 1883, Mihai Eminescu, “De-or trece anii…”, in Poesii [Poems]‎, Bucharest: Socec, lines 1–2, page 159:
  De-ori trece anii cum trecură,
  Ea tot mai mult im va plăcè, […]
  Should the years pass as they have passed,
  I shall like her increasingly more, […]

Usage notes

The first, third and fourth senses take a high pitch; the second meaning is distinguished with a lower pitch and is relatively stressed. These contrast in a sentence like tot se duce, which may mean either he’s habitually going or he’s going anyway.

Synonyms

(still): oricum, și-așa
(repeatedly): întruna
(increasingly): din ce în ce

Determiner

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

all, the whole [from 1581]
toată treaba ― the whole thing
- 1835, Vasile Drăghici, Robinson Cruzoe, seau Întâmplările cele minunate a unui tânăr [Robinson Crusoe, or the wonderful adventures of a young man]‎, Iași: Tipografia Albina, translation of Robinson der Jüngere by Joachim Heinrich Campe, page 59:
  […] тот портꙋл съꙋ єра плин де мѫндріе.
  […] tot portul său era plin de mândrie.
  […] his whole conduct was full of arrogance.
- 1876, Ion Creangă, Povestea porcului:
  În sfârșit, s-a hotărât a se duce în toată lumea, să-și caute bărbatul.
  In the end, she decided to go out in the entire world to search for her man.
- 1928, Panait Istrati, Ciulinii Bărăganului:
  Am aflat curând toată povestea […]
  I soon found out the whole story […]
- 1972, Anuarul Observatorului din București [Yearly of the Bucharest Observatory], Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 92:
  Uranus se află tot anul în constelația Fecioara.
  Uranus is in Virgo all year.
- 2016, Carmen Pațac, transl., Jurnalul lui Adam și al Evei‎ (ebook), Litera, translation of The Diaries of Adam and Eve by Mark Twain, →ISBN:
  După o săptămână am înțeles și noi că toată treaba cu-ntrerupătorul era o păcăleală și-o capcană.
  After a week we finally understood that the whole thing about the switch was a sham and a trap.
(in the plural) all, every [from c. 1500–1510]
cu toate acestea ― with that being said
- c. 1500–1510, Hurmuzaki Psalter, folio 49^r, lines 6–7; edited in Ion Gheție; Mirela Teodorescu, editors, Psaltirea Hurmuzaki, volume I, Bucharest: Romanian Academy Press, 2005:
  каоу҆ᲅьшисокоᲅѣщиꙟᲅѡаᲅелимбиле·
  Caută și socoteaști în toate limbile […]
  Search and judge in all nations […] (Psalm 59:6)
- 1946, Lucian Blaga, Hronicul și cântecul vârstelor [Chronicle and song of the ages], fourth edition, Bucharest: Minerva, published 1990, →ISBN, page 174:
  Manifestul era adresat tuturor popoarelor din monarhie, numai nouă, românilor, nu.
  The manifesto was addressed to all of the peoples of the Monarchy, except for us, the Romanians.
(with singular countable nouns; archaic, regional or colloquial) every
în tot locul ― all over the place
- c. 1500–1510, Hurmuzaki Psalter, folio 125^r, lines 23–24; edited in Ion Gheție; Mirela Teodorescu, editors, Psaltirea Hurmuzaki, volume I, Bucharest: Romanian Academy Press, 2005:
  ᲅоаᲅъдыханїаселаоудедѡ́мнꙋлъ:⁓
  Toată dihania se laude Domnul.
  Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. (Psalm 150:6)
- 1856, Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Călĕtoriĭ la Ierusalim în serbătorile Pascelui şi în Egiptŭ [Journeys to Jerusalem during Easter and to Egypt]‎, second edition, Bucharest, published 1867, page 96:
  În ajunul Epifanieĭ, în tot anul, venéŭ aicĭ mulţime de chreştinĭ.
  On the day before Epiphany, each year, a multitude of Christians came here.

Usage notes

The singular genitive case is not used; the word întreg is substituted. Nonstandard usage is, however, encountered in old texts.[2]

The meaning every was productive in the past, but is now mostly restricted to the set phrases tot omul and în tot locul.

Declension

declension of tot

	singular			plural
	masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/accusative	tot		toată	toți	toate
genitive/dative	-		-	tuturor	tuturor

Synonyms

(the whole): întreg
(every): fiecare

Noun

tot n (uncountable)

a totality, whole
un tot unitar ― a unified whole
1. (figurative, poetic) world, universe
(articulated, only as nominal predicate) everything (the crucial part, the crux)

Declension

declension of tot (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tot	totul
genitive/dative	(unui) tot	totului
vocative	totule

Synonyms

(a whole): întreg, unitate

Pronoun

tot

everything
Tot ce faci contează. ― Everything you do matters.
everyone
Vă mulțumesc tuturor. ― I thank you all.

Declension

declension of tot

	singular			plural
	masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/accusative	tot		toată	toți	toate
genitive/dative	-		-	tuturor	tuturor

Derived terms

atot-
cu tot
de toate
de tot
în toată firea
în tot locul
peste tot
toată lumea
toată ziua
totdeauna
totodată
tot omul
tot timpul

Noun

tot m (plural toți) (Transylvania)

Alternative form of tăut (“Slovak”)

References

tot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
I. Cojocaru, editor (1958) Documente privitoare la economia Țării Românești. 1800-1850 [Documents concerning the economy of Wallachia] (in Romanian), volume 1, Bucharest: Editura Științifică, page 443

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Latin tōtus.

Adverb

tot

(Surmiran) all

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Vulgar Latin tōttus, alteration of Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot

all

Wastek

Noun

tot

turkey vulture

References

wordlist

[1] tot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

[2] I. Cojocaru, editor (1958) Documente privitoare la economia Țării Românești. 1800-1850 [Documents concerning the economy of Wallachia] (in Romanian), volume 1, Bucharest: Editura Științifică, page 443

tot

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Catalan

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Chinook Jargon

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Crimean Tatar

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Occitan

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Old French

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