English

Alternative forms

• totall (obsolete)

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.

See also

• 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

Synonyms

• (sum): sum

Translations

Derived terms

• subtotal

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.‎

   • 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterII:

     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.‎

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• total war

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)

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m ‎(plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Adjective

total m, f ‎(masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

Noun

total m ‎(plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /totaːl/, [tˢoˈtˢæːˀl]

Adjective

total

1. total

Inflection

Noun

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

Inflection

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

Synonyms

• 2-tal

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔ.tal/
• Homophones: totale, totales

Adjective

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

1. total
2. perfect

Antonyms

• (total): partiel

Noun

total m ‎(plural totaux)

1. total

Related terms

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

Galician

Adjective

total m, f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

Noun

total m ‎(plural totais)

1. total

German

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aːl

Adjective

total ‎(not comparable)

1. total

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis.

Adjective

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

1. total

Derived terms

• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin tōtālis.

Adjective

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

1. total

Derived terms

• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

total m, f ‎(plural totais, comparable)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)
   • 2005, Lya Wyler (translator), J. K. Rowling (English author), Harry Potter e o Enigma do Príncipe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), Rocco, 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.

Synonyms

• (complete): completo, inteiro

Antonyms

• (complete): incompleto, parcial

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• totalidade

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

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

Adjective

total m, f ‎(plural totales)

1. total, complete

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

See also

• todo

References

• “total” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2001.