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
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
tot (plural tots)
- A small child.
- He learned to run when he was just a tot.
- 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.
- 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
- (Britain, dialectal, 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)
Derived terms
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔt/
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Catalan
Etymology
From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “tot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “tot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “tot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dalmatian
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/
audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔt
Conjunction
tot
Inflection
Derived terms
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/
Audio (file) - Homophone: Tod
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist tot | sie ist tot | es ist tot | sie sind tot | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | toter | tote | totes | tote |
genitive | toten | toter | toten | toter | |
dative | totem | toter | totem | toten | |
accusative | toten | tote | totes | tote | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der tote | die tote | das tote | die toten |
genitive | des toten | der toten | des toten | der toten | |
dative | dem toten | der toten | dem toten | den toten | |
accusative | den toten | die tote | das tote | die toten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein toter | eine tote | ein totes | (keine) toten |
genitive | eines toten | einer toten | eines toten | (keiner) toten | |
dative | einem toten | einer toten | einem toten | (keinen) toten | |
accusative | einen toten | eine tote | ein totes | (keine) toten |
Related terms
- Tod m
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /tot/, [tɔt]
Coordinate 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
- 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
Old French
Alternative forms
Declension
Old Occitan
Romagnol
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 or n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)
Declension
singular | plural | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | tot | toată | toți | toate | ||
definite | — | — | — | — | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | — | — | tuturor | tuturor | ||
definite | — | — | — | — |
Derived terms
- atot-
- totdeauna
- totodată