total

See also: totál

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 origen. 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.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.təl/
• (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [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 (nətijə)
• 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
• Maori: 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)
• Bashkir: нәтижә (nətijə)
• 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:

     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.

   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)
• 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)
• Maori: 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)
• 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 (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.

   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 (lyrics and music), “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.

Translations

to add up

• Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (sǎbiram)
• 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)

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

to equal after calculation

• Bulgarian: възлизам (bg) (vǎzlizam)
• 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
• Swedish: totalkvadda

(intransitive) to amount to

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

Derived terms

from all parts of speech

• grand total
• in total
• left total
• right total
• subtotal
• sum-total
• sum total
• 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
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totally
• total object
• total order
• total ordering relation
• total package
• total quality management
• total recall
• total return swap
• total revenue
• total ring of fractions
• total running time
• total station
• total story time
• total synthesis
• total up
• total war

 

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “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.

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

Adjective

total

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

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.tal/, /to.tal/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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

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, 2012–2024

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toˈtaːl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)

1. total

Declension

Positive forms of total (uncomparable)

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

Adverb

total

1. totally

   Synonym: absolut

2. (colloquial) big time, full-on, flat-out

   total übertrieben ― massively exaggerated

   total zugekifft ― stoned out of one's mind

   total betrunken ― dead drunk

Further reading

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

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/

• 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

   • 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.

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

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 and neuter plural totale)

1. total

Declension

		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

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) +‎ -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, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʊˈtɑːl/

• Audio:

  (file)

• 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 (SO)

Anagrams

• Lotta, lotta

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

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, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• tatlo