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
Translations
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See also
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
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.
- 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.
- (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.
- (mathematics, more generally, of a relation R on X × Y) Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
- (mathematics, of a partial order ≤) Such that any two elements are comparable, i.e. for all a and b, either a ≤ b, or b ≤ a.
- Hyponyms: connected, complete, strongly connected
Synonyms
- (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
- (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total
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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)
- 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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Derived terms
- grand total
- in total
- left total
- right total
- subtotal
- sum-total
- sum total
- total allergy syndrome
- total base number
- total bases
- total body day
- total clearance
- total conversion
- total conversion mod
- total depravity
- total digestible nutrients
- total eclipse
- total-etch
- total football
- total function
- total group
- total hardness
- total internal reflection
- total internal reflexion
- totalism
- totalitarian
- totality
- totally
- total object
- total order
- total ordering relation
- total package
- total quality management
- total recall
- total return swap
- total revenue
- total ring of fractions
- total running time
- total station
- total story time
- total synthesis
- total war
Anagrams
Asturian
Etymology
From Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Adjective
total (epicene, plural totales)
Noun
total m (plural totales)
Derived terms
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis. First attested in the 16th century.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)
Derived terms
Related terms
Noun
total m (plural totals)
Derived terms
References
- ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
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
Pronunciation
Adjective
total
Inflection
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
total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)
Inflection
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totalen | totaler | totalerne |
genitive | totals | totalens | totalers | totalernes |
Etymology 2
Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).
Pronunciation
Noun
total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)
Inflection
neuter gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | total | totallet | totaller | totallerne |
genitive | totals | totallets | totallers | totallernes |
Synonyms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)
Noun
total m (plural totaux)
- total
Related terms
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)
Noun
total m (plural totais)
Further reading
- “total”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
German
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)
Declension
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
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)
Derived terms
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)
Derived terms
References
- “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
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
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
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French total. By surface analysis, tot (“the whole”) + -al.
Adjective
total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)
Derived terms
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
See also
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
Adjective
total (not comparable)
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
Anagrams
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- tutal — adverb
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog)
- Rhymes: -al
Adverb
totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)
- (colloquial) used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement: anyway; anyhow
- Synonym: kung sa bagay
Noun
totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)
Derived terms
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