# total
## 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 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: /ˈtəʊ.təl/
* (General American) enPR: tōʹtl, IPA: /ˈtoʊ.təl/, [tʰoʊ̯ɾɫ], [tʰɔɾɫ]
* Audio (California):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊtəl

### Noun

total (plural totals)
* An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.
    A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.
* (informal, mathematics) Sum.
    The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

#### Synonyms

* (sum): sum

#### 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) = (power)
* root extraction:
    √ (radicand) = (root)
* logarithmization:
    log$_{(base)}$ (antilogarithm) = (logarithm)
Advanced hyperoperations: tetration, pentation, hexation

### Adjective

total (comparative more total, superlative most total)
* 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.
* (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.
    He is a total failure.
* (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.
* (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.
* (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
### 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)
* (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.
    Synonym: sum
    When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.
* To equal a total of; to amount to.
    That totals seven times so far.
* (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!
* (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.
    It totals nearly a pound.

#### Translations
### Derived terms

* 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)
* total

### Noun

total m (plural totales)
* total

#### Derived terms

* en total

## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [tuˈtal]
* IPA: (Balearic, Valencia) [toˈtal]

### Adjective

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totals)
* total

#### Derived terms

* totalment

#### Related terms

* totalitat

### Noun

total m (plural totals)
* total

#### Derived terms

* en total

### References

* ↑ “total”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

### 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: /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

#### Adjective

total
* total

##### Inflection

$^1$ 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)
* total

##### Inflection
### Etymology 2

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /total/, [ˈtˢotˢal]

#### Noun

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)
* two

##### Synonyms

* 2-tal

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɔ.tal/, /to.tal/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: totale, totales

### Adjective

total (feminine totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)
* total
    Antonym: partiel
* perfect

### Noun

total m (plural totaux)
* 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)
* complete, entire

### Noun

total m (plural totais)
* total

### Further reading

* “total”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

## German
### Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin tōtālis.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toˈtaːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aːl

### Adjective

total (strong nominative masculine singular totaler, not comparable)
* total

#### Declension
### Adverb

total
* totally
    Synonym: absolut
* (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

## 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: /ˈtotal/ [ˈt̪o.t̪al]
* Rhymes: -otal
* Syllabification: to‧tal

### Adjective

total
* total:
** entire; relating to the whole of something
** complete; absolute

### Noun

total (plural total-total)
* total

### Derived terms

* bertotal
* ditotal
* menotal
* penotalan
* setotal
* totalan
* total jenderal

### Further reading

* “total” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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)
* 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)
* 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: /toˈtaw/ [toˈtaʊ̯]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈtal/ [tuˈtaɫ]
* (Portugal) IPA: /tuˈtal/ [tuˈtaɫ]
** (Southern Portugal) IPA: /tuˈta.li/
* Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
* Hyphenation: to‧tal

### Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)
* 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.
* 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)
* 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)
* total

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al]
* Rhymes: -al
* Syllabification: to‧tal

### Adjective

total m or f (masculine and feminine plural totales)
* total, complete, outright

#### Derived terms

* totalmente

### Adverb

total
* (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)
    Total que no puedo venir.Basically, I can't come.

### Noun

total m (plural totales)
* 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: /tʊˈtɑːl/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːl

### Adjective

total (not comparable)
* total

#### Declension

$^1$ 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: /toˈtal/ [t̪oˈt̪al] (noun; adverb)
*** Rhymes: -al
** IPA: /ˈtotal/ [ˈt̪oː.t̪ɐl] (English influence) (noun)
*** Rhymes: -otal
* Syllabification: to‧tal

### Noun

totál or total (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)
* total; sum
    Synonym: kabuoan

#### Derived terms

* magtotal
* totalin

#### Related terms

* sumatotal
* todo
* totalidad
* totalitarismo
* totalitaryo

### Adverb

totál (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜆᜎ᜔)
* (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.
* (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