total

See also: totál

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English

Alternative forms

• totall (obsolete)

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (California):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊtəl

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.

Synonyms

• (sum): sum

Translations

amount

• Arabic: مَجْمُوع m (majmūʕ)
• Assamese: মুঠ (muth)
• Asturian: total (ast) m
• Bashkir: нәтижә (nätijä)
• Bulgarian: сума (bg) f (suma)
• Catalan: total (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總計 / 总计 (zh) (zǒngjì)

• Czech: úhrn m
• Danish: total
• Dutch: totaal (nl) n
• Esperanto: totalo
• Finnish: summa (fi), kokonaismäärä, yhteismäärä
• French: total (fr) m
• Galician: total (gl) m
• German: Gesamtbetrag (de) m, Gesamtsumme (de) f
• Greek: σύνολο (el) n (sýnolo)
• Hungarian: végösszeg (hu)
• Indonesian: jumlah (id)
• Italian: totale (it) m
• Japanese: 総計 (ja) (そうけい, sōkei), 合計 (ja) (ごうけい, gōkei)
• Korean: 합계 (hapgye)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tevayî (ku)

• Latin: totus (la), solidus (la)
• Malay: jumlah
• Malayalam: മൊത്തം (ml) (mottaṁ)
• Manx: ard-sym m
• Māori: tapeke
• Persian: کل (fa) (kol)
• Polish: suma (pl) f
• Portuguese: total (pt) m
• Russian: ито́г (ru) m (itóg), су́мма (ru) f (súmma)
• Spanish: total (es) m, montante (es)
• Swahili: idadi (sw)
• Swedish: summa (sv)
• Tagalog: kabuoan
• Tamil: மொத்தம் (ta) (mottam)
• Telugu: మొత్తము (te) (mottamu)
• Turkish: tutar (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎂𐎎𐎗 (tgmr)
• Ukrainian: пі́дсумок m (pídsumok), су́ма (uk) f (súma)
• Vietnamese: tổng (vi), tổng cộng (vi)

sum

• Arabic: مَجْمُوع m (majmūʕ)
• Azerbaijani: cəm (az)
• Bashkir: нәтижә (nätijä)
• Bulgarian: сбор (bg) m (sbor)
• Catalan: suma (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 總數 / 总数 (zh) (zǒngshù), 總和 / 总和 (zh) (zǒnghé)

• Czech: součet (cs) m
• Dutch: totaal (nl) n, som (nl) f
• Esperanto: sumo
• Finnish: summa (fi)
• French: somme (fr) f
• German: Summe (de) f
• Greek: άθροισμα (el) n (áthroisma)
• Hungarian: összeg (hu)
• Ido: sumo (io)
• Indonesian: keseluruhan (id)
• Italian: somma (it) f
• Japanese: 総額 (ja) (そうがく, sōgaku), 和 (ja) (わ, wa), 総和 (ja) (そうわ, sōwa)
• Korean: 합계 (hapgye)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tevayî (ku)

• Latin: somma f, summa f
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Plautdietsch: Somm f
• Polish: suma (pl) f
• Portuguese: soma (pt) f
• Russian: су́мма (ru) f (súmma)
• Serbo-Croatian: zbroj (sh) m
• Spanish: suma (es) f
• Swahili: jumla (sw)
• Swedish: summa (sv)
• Tagalog: kabuoan
• Telugu: లెక్క (te) (lekka)
• Turkish: toplam (tr)
• Vietnamese: tổng (vi)

See also

Other terms used in arithmetic operations:

• successor
• addition, summation:

  (augend) + (addend) = (total)

  (summand) + (summand) + (summand)... = (sum)

• subtraction:

  (minuend) − (subtrahend) = (difference)

• multiplication, factorization:

  (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (product)

  (factor) × (factor) × (factor)... = (product)

• division:

  (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient)

  (numerator) / (denominator) = (quotient)

  Or sometimes = (quotient) with (remainder) remaining

• exponentiation:

  (base) ^(exponent) = (power)

• root extraction:

  ^(degree) √ (radicand) = (root)

• logarithmization:

  log_(base) (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)

Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

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.

   • 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, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     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

Synonyms

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

Translations

entire

• Bulgarian: общ (bg) (obšt), цялостен (bg) (cjalosten)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全體的 / 全体的 (zh) (quántǐ de), 整個 / 整个 (zh) (zhěnggè), 全部的 (zh) (quánbù de)

• Czech: celý (cs) m
• Dutch: totaal (nl), totale (nl), geheel (nl), gehele (nl)
• Finnish: koko (fi), kokonais-, yhteensä (fi) (postpositive)
• French: entier (fr), tout (fr), total (fr)
• Galician: total (gl) m or f
• German: ganz (de), gesamt (de)
• Greek: ολικός (el) m (olikós), συνολικός (el) m (synolikós)
• Hungarian: összes (hu), egész (hu)
• Ido: totala (io)
• Indonesian: semesta (id)
• Italian: totale (it), intero (it)
• Japanese: 全部 (ja) (zenbu)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tev (ku), hemû (ku), giş (ku)

• Malayalam: ആകെ (ml) (āke), മൊത്തം (ml) (mottaṁ)
• Māori: tapeke
• Polish: całkowity (pl)
• Portuguese: total (pt)
• Russian: це́лый (ru) (célyj), весь (ru) (vesʹ)
• Spanish: total (es)
• Swedish: hel (sv), total (sv)
• Telugu: అన్ని (te) (anni)
• Turkish: tüm (tr), bütün (tr)
• Vietnamese: tổng cộng (vi), toàn bộ (vi)

complete

• Bulgarian: сумарен (bg) (sumaren), тотален (bg) (totalen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完全 (zh) (wánquán)

• Czech: naprostý (cs) m, totální (cs)
• Dutch: compleet (nl), complete (nl), volledig (nl), volledige (nl), geheel (nl), gehele (nl), totale (nl), totaal (nl), totaal-
• Finnish: täydellinen (fi), täysi (fi), totaalinen (fi)
• French: total (fr)
• Galician: completo (gl) m
• German: komplett (de), total (de)
• Greek: παντελής (el) m or f (pantelís), πλήρης (el) m (plíris)
• Hungarian: teljes (hu)
• Indonesian: mutlak (id)
• Japanese: 完全な (kanzen-na)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tev (ku), temam (ku)

• Latvian: pilnīgs
• Polish: bezwzględny (pl), całkowity (pl), totalny (pl), zupełny (pl)
• Portuguese: completo (pt)
• Russian: по́лный (ru) (pólnyj), тота́льный (ru) (totálʹnyj)
• Spanish: total (es)
• Swedish: hel (sv), total (sv)
• Telugu: పూర్తి (te) (pūrti)
• Turkish: tüm (tr), bütün (tr)
• Vietnamese: hoàn toàn (vi), toàn tập (vi)

Verb

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.

   • 1972, Frank Zappa, “Billy the Mountain”:

     He acted real funny / He hocked up a rock and / It totaled my 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.

Translations

to add up

• Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (săbiram)
• Catalan: totalitzar (ca)
• Dutch: bijeentellen (nl), optellen (nl)
• Finnish: laskea yhteen, summata (fi)
• French: totaliser (fr)
• German: aufaddieren (de), zusammenaddieren (de), zusammennehmen (de)
• Greek: αθροίζω (el) (athroízo)
• Indonesian: menjumlahkan (id)
• Irish: cuir le chéile
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tevandin (ku)

• Māori: tapeke
• Polish: podsumowywać (pl) impf, podsumować (pl) pf
• Telugu: కూడుట (te) (kūḍuṭa)

to equal after calculation

• Bulgarian: възлизам (bg) (văzlizam)
• Catalan: totalitzar (ca)
• Dutch: uitkomen op, gelijk zijn aan
• Finnish: olla (fi), tehdä (fi)
• Indonesian: seluruhnya
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: tev (ku) bûn

• Polish: równać się impf, wynosić (pl) impf, wynieść (pl) pf
• Telugu: సరాసరి (te) (sarāsari)

to demolish

• Dutch: in de prak rijden
• Finnish: tuhota (fi)
• German: schrotten (de)
• Greek: καταστρέφω (el) (katastréfo), κατεδαφίζω (el) (katedafízo)
• Indonesian: menghancurkan penuh
• Irish: scrios
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: ruxandin (ku), hilweşandin (ku)

• Polish: kasować (pl) impf, skasować (pl) pf
• Spanish: hacer pelota, inutilizar (es)
• Swedish: totalkvadda

(intransitive) to amount to

• Dutch: uitkomen op, gelijk zijn aan
• Finnish: olla (yhteensä), tehdä (fi)
• Greek: ανέρχομαι (el) (anérchomai)
• Indonesian: berjumlah (id)
• Māori: tapeke
• Polish: równać się impf, wynosić (pl) impf, wynieść (pl) pf

Derived terms

from all parts of speech

• grand total
• in total
• left total
• nontotal
• posttotal
• retotal
• right total
• subtotal
• sum-total
• sum total
• supertotal
• supratotal
• total allergy syndrome
• total base number
• total bases
• total body day
• total clearance
• total conversion
• total conversion mod
• total depravity
• total digestible nutrients
• total eclipse
• total-etch
• total football
• total function
• total group
• total hardness
• total internal reflection
• total internal reflexion
• totalise
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totalization
• totalize
• totally
• totalness
• total object
• total order
• total ordering relation
• total package
• total quality management
• total recall
• total return
• total return swap
• total revenue
• total ring of fractions
• total running time
• total shareholder return
• total station
• total story time
• total synthesis
• total up
• total war
• ultratotal

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis. First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Central) [tuˈtal]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia, Northwestern) [toˈtal]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalment

Related terms

• totalitat

Noun

total m (plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Further reading

• “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.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “total”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

Adjective

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

1. total

Inflection

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.

Noun

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

Inflection

Declension of total

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	total	totalen	totaler	totalerne
genitive	totals	totalens	totalers	totalernes

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

Declension of total

neuter gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	total	totallet	totaller	totallerne
genitive	totals	totallets	totallers	totallernes

Synonyms

• 2-tal

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.tal/, /to.tal/

• Audio:

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophones: totale, totales

Adjective

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

1. total

   Antonym: partiel

2. perfect

Noun

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

Related terms

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

Further reading

• “total”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tōtus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Medieval Latin tōtālisder.

Galician total

Derived from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total

Further reading

• “total”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈtaːl/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

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?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Positive forms of total number & gender singular plural masculine feminine neuter predicative er ist total sie ist total es ist total sie sind total strong declension (without article) nominative totaler totale totales totale genitive totalen totaler totalen totaler dative totalem totaler totalem totalen accusative totalen totale totales totale weak declension (with definite article) nominative der totale die totale das totale die totalen genitive des totalen der totalen des totalen der totalen dative dem totalen der totalen dem totalen den totalen accusative den totalen die totale das totale die totalen mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein totaler eine totale ein totales (keine) totalen genitive eines totalen einer totalen eines totalen (keiner) totalen dative einem totalen einer totalen einem totalen (keinen) totalen accusative einen totalen eine totale ein totales (keine) totalen Comparative forms of total number & gender singular plural masculine feminine neuter predicative er ist totaler sie ist totaler es ist totaler sie sind totaler strong declension (without article) nominative totalerer totalere totaleres totalere genitive totaleren totalerer totaleren totalerer dative totalerem totalerer totalerem totaleren accusative totaleren totalere totaleres totalere weak declension (with definite article) nominative der totalere die totalere das totalere die totaleren genitive des totaleren der totaleren des totaleren der totaleren dative dem totaleren der totaleren dem totaleren den totaleren accusative den totaleren die totalere das totalere die totaleren mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein totalerer eine totalere ein totaleres (keine) totaleren genitive eines totaleren einer totaleren eines totaleren (keiner) totaleren dative einem totaleren einer totaleren einem totaleren (keinen) totaleren accusative einen totaleren eine totalere ein totaleres (keine) totaleren Superlative forms of total number & gender singular plural masculine feminine neuter predicative er ist am totalsten sie ist am totalsten es ist am totalsten sie sind am totalsten strong declension (without article) nominative totalster totalste totalstes totalste genitive totalsten totalster totalsten totalster dative totalstem totalster totalstem totalsten accusative totalsten totalste totalstes totalste weak declension (with definite article) nominative der totalste die totalste das totalste die totalsten genitive des totalsten der totalsten des totalsten der totalsten dative dem totalsten der totalsten dem totalsten den totalsten accusative den totalsten die totalste das totalste die totalsten mixed declension (with indefinite article) nominative ein totalster eine totalste ein totalstes (keine) totalsten genitive eines totalsten einer totalsten eines totalsten (keiner) totalsten dative einem totalsten einer totalsten einem totalsten (keinen) totalsten accusative einen totalsten eine totalste ein totalstes (keine) totalsten

Related terms

• Totale
• totalisieren
• totalitär
• Totalität

Adverb

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”)

Further reading

• “total”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “total” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “total” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

total (comparative lebih total, superlative paling total)

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

Noun

total (plural total-total)

1. total

Derived terms

• bertotal
• ditotal
• menotal
• penotalan
• setotal
• totalan

• total jenderal

Related terms

• totalisator
• totalitas
• totaliter

Further reading

• “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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

Adjective

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

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskade
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus +‎ -ālis.

Adjective

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

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskadd
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /toˈtaw/ [toˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈtal/ [tuˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈtal/ [tuˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /tuˈta.li/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: to‧tal

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)

   Synonyms: completo, inteiro

   Antonyms: incompleto, parcial

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     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.

Noun

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.

Related terms

• todo
• todos
• totalidade
• totalitário
• totalização
• totalizar
• totalmente

Further reading

• “total”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “total”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French total. By surface analysis, tot (“the whole”) + -al.

Adjective

total m or n (feminine singular totală, masculine plural totali, feminine/neuter plural totale)

1. total

Declension

Declension of total

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	total		totală	totali	totale
	definite	totalul		totala	totalii	totalele
genitive- dative	indefinite	total		totale	totali	totale
	definite	totalului		totalei	totalilor	totalelor

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tōtus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Medieval Latin tōtālislbor.

Spanish total

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from Latin tōtus + -ālis.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)

1. total, complete, outright

Derived terms

• totalmente

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

Derived terms

• en total

See also

• todo

Further reading

• “total”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈtɑːl/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

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.

References

• “total”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)

Anagrams

• Lotta, lotta

Tagalog

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tōtus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Medieval Latin tōtālislbor.

Spanish totalbor.

Tagalog total

Borrowed from Spanish total, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from Latin tōtus + -ālis.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

totál or total (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)

1. total; sum

   Synonym: kabuoan

Derived terms

• magtotal
• totalin

Related terms

• sumatotal
• todo
• totalidad
• totalitarismo
• totalitaryo

Adverb

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.

Alternative forms

• tutal

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tatlo