total
English
Alternative forms
- totall (obsolete)
Etymology
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
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
- (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]
Audio (US, California) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊtəl
Noun
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
- (sum): sum
Derived terms
- subtotal
Translations
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See also
Other terms used in arithmetic operations:
- successor
- addition, summation:
- (augend) + (addend) = (total)
- (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)
- subtraction:
- (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
- multiplication, factorization:
- (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)
- (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)
- division:
- (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)
- (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)
- Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining
- exponentiation:
- (base) (exponent) = (power)
- root extraction:
- (degree) √ (radicand) = (root)
- logarithmization:
- log(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation
Adjective
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 639762314:
- 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
- (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
Derived terms
- total allergy syndrome
- total eclipse
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totally
- total order
- total war
- left total, right total
Translations
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Verb
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)
- Synonyms: demolish, trash, wreck
- Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
- 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.
Translations
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Anagrams
- lotta
Asturian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective
total (epicene, plural totales)
- total
Noun
total m (plural totales)
- total
Derived terms
- en total
Catalan
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, attested from the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /toˈtal/
- (Central) IPA(key): /tuˈtal/
Adjective
total (masculine and feminine plural totals)
- total
Derived terms
- totalment
Related terms
- totalitat
Noun
total m (plural totals)
- total
Derived terms
- en total
References
- “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
Further reading
- “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
Etymology 1
From French total.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]
Adjective
total
- total
Inflection
Inflection of total | |||
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Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
Common singular | total | — | —2 |
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
total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)
- total
Inflection
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totalen | totaler | totalerne |
genitive | totals | totalens | totalers | totalernes |
Etymology 2
Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]
Noun
total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)
- two
Inflection
neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totallet | totaller | totallerne |
genitive | totals | totallets | totallers | totallernes |
Synonyms
- 2-tal
French
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔ.tal/, /to.tal/
audio (file) - Homophones: totale, totales
Adjective
total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)
- total
- Antonym: partiel
- perfect
Noun
total m (plural totaux)
- total
Related terms
- au total
- question totale
- sous-total
- totalement
- totaliser
- totalitaire
- totalité
- tout
Further reading
- “total”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective
total m or f (plural totais)
- complete, entire
Noun
total m (plural totais)
- total
Further reading
- “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toˈtaːl/
(file) (file) - Rhymes: -aːl
Adjective
total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)
- total
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
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
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
- “total” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “total” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “total” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
Adjective
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
- total
Derived terms
- totalskade
- totaltap
References
- “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus + -ālis.
Adjective
total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)
- total
Derived terms
- totalskadd
- totaltap
References
- “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /toˈtaw/ [toˈtaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /tuˈtal/ [tuˈtaɫ]
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
- Hyphenation: to‧tal
Adjective
total m or f (plural totais)
- complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
- 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.
- Synonyms: completo, inteiro
- 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
total m (plural totais)
- total (amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts)
- O total de livros nesta biblioteca é mais de um milhão.
- The total amount of books in this library is more than a million.
- Synonym: totalidade
Related terms
- todo
- todos
- totalidade
- totalitário
- totalização
- totalizar
- totalmente
Romanian
Etymology
From French total.
Adjective
total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)
- total
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
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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
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis.
Adjective
total (plural totales)
- total, complete, outright
Derived terms
- totalmente
Adverb
total
- (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
- Total que no puedo venir.
- Basically, I can't come.
Noun
total m (plural totales)
- total
Derived terms
- en total
See also
- todo
Further reading
- “total”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
Etymology
From German total, from French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʊˈtɑːl/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɑːl
Adjective
total (not comparable)
- total
Declension
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
- total in Svensk ordbok (SO)
Anagrams
- Lotta, lotta
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish total.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: to‧tal
- IPA(key): /toˈtal/, [toˈtal]
Adverb
totál
- (colloquial) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement: anyway; anyhow
- Synonym: kung sa bagay
Noun
totál
- total; sum
- Synonym: kabuoan
Derived terms
- magtotal
- totalin
Related terms
- totalidad
- totalitarismo
- totalitaryo