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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 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.

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.

amount

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.
  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

complete

total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (US) totaling or (UK) totalling, simple past and past participle (US) totaled or (UK) totalled)

  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.
    • 1988, “Hyperstation”, in Daydream Nation, performed by Sonic Youth:
      Smashed up against a car at 3 AM, / The kids dressed up for basketball beat me in my head, / There's bum trash in my hall, and my place is ripped, / I totaled another amp, I'm calling in sick.
  4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
    It totals nearly a pound.

to equal after calculation

(intransitive) to amount to

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

total (epicene, plural totales)

  1. total

total m (plural totales)

  1. total

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

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)

  1. total

total m (plural totals)

  1. total
  1. ^ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026

From French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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

  1. total

Inflection of total

| | positive | comparative | superlative | | | -------------------------- | -------------------------------------- | ----------- | -- | | indefinite 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.

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

  1. total

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

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

  1. two

From Middle French total (14th c.), a borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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

  1. total
    Antonym: partiel
  2. perfect

total m (plural totaux)

  1. total

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete, entire

total m (plural totais)

  1. total

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

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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Comparative forms of total

Superlative forms of total

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”)

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”).

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

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

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

  1. total

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

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

  1. total

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

total m or f (plural totais)

  1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
    Synonyms: completo, inteiro
    Antonyms: incompleto, parcial
  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/neuter plural totale)

  1. total

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

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

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

total (not comparable)

  1. total

Inflection of total

Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular total — —
neuter singular totalt — —
plural totala — —
masculine plural2 totale — —
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 totale — —
all totala — —

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Borrowed from Spanish total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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.