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

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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. (Britain, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations

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. (Britain, 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

Noun

tot (plural tots)

  1. An addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams

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

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Noun

tot m (plural toteanj)

  1. old man
  2. grandfather

Synonyms

See also

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. all

Pronoun

tot

  1. everything

Derived terms

Further reading

Chinook Jargon

Noun

tot

  1. uncle

Coordinate terms

  • (with regards to gender): kwalh

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tot

  1. 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)

  1. all

Pronoun

tot

  1. 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/
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  • Rhymes: -ɔt

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!

Preposition

tot

  1. to, up to
  2. until

Inflection

Derived terms

Anagrams

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toːt/
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  • Homophone: Tod

Adjective

tot (not comparable)

  1. dead, deceased

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • tot in Duden online

Italian

Adjective

tot (invariable)

  1. so many

Noun

tot m (invariable)

  1. so much

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Numeral

tot (indeclinable)

  1. so many

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

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 Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tut/

Adjective

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

  1. all

Pronoun

tot

  1. everything

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

  1. all

Declension

Adverb

tot

  1. all; completely

Descendants

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

tōt

  1. dead

Descendants

  • Middle High German: tōt
    • Central Franconian: dut
    • German: tot
    • Luxembourgish: dout, doudeg
    • Yiddish: טויט‎ (toyt)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot (nominative singular tuih)

  1. all

Descendants

Romagnol

Pronoun

tot

  1. everyone

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

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

Declension

Pronoun

tot

  1. everything

Derived terms

References

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin tōtus.

Adverb

tot

  1. (Surmiran) all

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective

tot

  1. all
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