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.

   • 1942 November 21, A Tale of Two Kitties, spoken by Tweety:

     Air waid! Wights out! Total bwackout!

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.

   Synonym: make

   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, “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.

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

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, Valencia) [toˈtal]

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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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “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, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

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

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

From Middle French total (14th c.), a borrowing 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

• “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, 2012–2025

16th century, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, in part through Middle French total.

• IPA^(key): /toˈtaːl/

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• Rhymes: -aːl

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, comparative (rare) totaler, superlative (rare) am totalsten)

1. total, absolute, complete, utter (not used in the sense of “entire”)

   Synonyms: völlig, vollständig, absolut, komplett

   Es ist kein totales, sondern nur ein partielles Verbot.

   It is not an absolute ban, but merely a partial one.

   • 1943 February 18, Joseph Goebbels, Sportpalastrede:

     Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?

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total

1. (more informal than the adjective) totally, absolutely, completely, utterly

   Synonyms: völlig, vollkommen, absolut, komplett

   total übertrieben ― totally exaggerated

   total besoffen ― completely drunk

2. (Switzerland) synonym of insgesamt (“in total, all in all”)

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

Borrowed from Dutch totaal, from Middle Dutch totael, from Middle French total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈtotal/ [ˈt̪o.t̪al]
• Rhymes: -otal
• Syllabification: to‧tal

total (comparative lebih total, superlative paling total)

1. total:
   1. entire; relating to the whole of something
   2. complete; absolute

total (plural total-total)

1. total

• “total”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

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”).

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• 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, translated by Lia Wyler, 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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

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

Borrowed from Spanish total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al] (noun; adverb)
    • Rhymes: -al
  • IPA^(key): /ˈtotal/ [ˈt̪oː.t̪ɐl] (English influence) (noun)
    • Rhymes: -otal
• Syllabification: to‧tal

totál or total (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

1. total; sum

   Synonym: kabuoan

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

1. (colloquial) after all (anyway, in any case)

   Synonym: kung sa bagay

   Total, nandito ka naman na, tumulong ka na dito.

   After all, now that you're here, you can now help here.

2. (colloquial) after all (introduces information that supports the preceding statement)

   Alam ko namang di ka makakatulong. Total, ayaw mong inuutusan.

   I know you won't be of help. After all, you don't like taking orders.

• tutal

• “total”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• tatlo