total

See also: totál

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”), 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.

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Noun

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.

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Adjective

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.
    • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:
      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.
  2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
    He is a total failure.

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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)

  1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
    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)
    Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.
  4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
    It totals nearly a pound.

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Asturian

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

  1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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Catalan

Adjective

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

  1. total

Noun

total m (plural totals)

  1. total

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Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

Adjective

total

  1. total
Inflection
Inflection of total
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)

  1. total
Inflection

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

Noun

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two
Inflection
Synonyms
  • 2-tal

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

  1. total
  2. perfect

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Noun

total m (plural totaux)

  1. total

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Galician

Adjective

total m, f (plural totais)

  1. complete, entire

Noun

total m (plural totais)

  1. total

German

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

total (not comparable)

  1. total

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis, from totus.

Adjective

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

  1. total

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis, from totus.

Adjective

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

  1. total

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Portuguese

Etymology

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

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Adjective

total m, f (plural totais, comparable)

  1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
    • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, 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.

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Noun

total m (plural totais)

  1. 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.

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Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (““all, whole, entire”).

Adjective

total (plural totales)

  1. total, complete

Adverb

total

  1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
    Total, que no puedo venir.
    Basically, I can't come.

Noun

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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