total

• totall (obsolete)

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
• (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]

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• Rhymes: -əʊtəl

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.

• (sum): sum

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

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.

4. (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.
5. (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

• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

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.

   • 1972, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Billy the Mountain”:

     He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my car!

4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

   It totals nearly a pound.

• lotta

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

total m (plural totales)

1. total

• en total

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis. First attested in the 16th century.[1]

• IPA^(key): (Central) [tuˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [toˈtal]

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

• totalment

• totalitat

total m (plural totals)

1. total

• en total

• “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.

From French total.

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

total

1. total

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

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

• IPA^(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

1. two

• 2-tal

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.tal/, /to.tal/

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• Homophones: totale, totales

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

1. total

   Antonym: partiel

2. perfect

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

• au total
• question totale
• sous-total
• totalement
• totaliser
• totalitaire
• totalité
• tout

• “total”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

total m (plural totais)

1. total

• “total”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

• IPA^(key): /toˈtaːl/

• (file)

• (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)

1. total

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

• “total” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “total” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “total” in Duden online

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

• totalskade
• totaltap

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

• totalskadd
• totaltap

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis (“total”), from Latin tōtus (“whole”) + -ālis (“-al”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: to‧tal

total m or f (plural totais)

1. 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.

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.

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.

Borrowed from French total. By surface analysis, tot (“the whole”) +‎ -al.

total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)

1. total

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) +‎ -ālis.

• IPA^(key): /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: to‧tal

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)

1. total, complete, outright

total

1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)

   Total que no puedo venir.

   Basically, I can't come.

total m (plural totales)

1. total

• todo

• “total”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From German total, from French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈtɑːl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

total (not comparable)

1. total

• total in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• Lotta, lotta

• tutal — adverb

Borrowed from Spanish total.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /toˈtal/ [toˈtal]
    • Syllabification: to‧tal
  • IPA^(key): /tuˈtal/ [tʊˈtal] (adverb)
• Rhymes: -al

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

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

   Synonym: kung sa bagay

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

1. total; sum

   Synonym: kabuoan