total

• totall (obsolete)

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
• (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ]

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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

• subtotal

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

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 639762314, page 0147:

     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.

• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

• total allergy syndrome
• total eclipse
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totally
• total order
• total war

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.

• (add up): add up, sum
• (demolish): demolish, trash, wreck

• lotta

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

total m (plural totales)

1. total

• en total

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

total m (plural totals)

1. total

• en total

From French total.

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

total

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

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.tal/

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• Homophones: totale, totales

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

1. total
2. perfect

• (total): partiel

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

• au total
• sous-total
• totalement
• totaliser
• totalitaire
• totalité
• tout

• “total” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

total m (plural totais)

1. total

From Latin tōtālis.

• Rhymes: -aːl

total (not comparable)

1. total

From Latin tōtālis, from totus.

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

1. total

• totalskade
• totaltap

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin tōtālis, from totus.

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

1. total

• totalskadd
• totaltap

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to.ˈtaw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.ˈtaɫ/

total m or f (plural totais, comparable)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
   • 2005, J. K. Rowling, 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.

• (complete): completo, inteiro

• (complete): incompleto, parcial

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.

• totalidade

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

total (plural totales)

1. total, complete

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.