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Tot
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Tot
tot
tot
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒt
Noun
tot (plural tots)
- A small child.
- He learned to run when he was just a tot.
- A measure of spirits, especially rum.
- 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
- Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
- 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party
- And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
- 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
- (Britain, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
Translations
Etymology 2
Shortening of total (“to sum”)
Pronunciation
- enPR: tŏt, IPA(key): /tɒt/
Verb
tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)
- To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (Britain, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
- a totted debt
Derived terms
Anagrams
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Noun
tot m (plural toteanj)
Synonyms
See also
Catalan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tot/
Etymology
From Old Provençal tot, from Latin tōtus.
Adjective
tot m (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)
Pronoun
tot
Derived terms
External links
- “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Dalmatian
Etymology
From Latin tōtus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.
Adjective
tot (feminine tota, masculine plural toč)
Pronoun
tot
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔt/
- Rhymes: -ɔt
Etymology
From Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”), equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon tōte (“to, until”), Old Frisian tot (“until”), Old High German zuo ze.
Conjunction
tot
- until, till
- Ik kan niet wachten tot het hier ook weer gaat sneeuwen! — I can't wait till it snows here as well!
Preposition
tot
Inflection
Derived terms
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Old High German tōt (akin to Old Saxon dōd), from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /toːt/
- Homophone: Tod
Adjective
tot (not comparable)
Derived terms
Related terms
- Tod m
Declension
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | all genders | ||
predicative | er ist tot | sie ist tot | es ist tot | sie sind tot | |
strong declension (without article) |
nominative | toter | tote | totes | tote |
genitive | toten | toter | toten | toter | |
dative | totem | toter | totem | toten | |
accusative | toten | tote | totes | tote | |
weak declension (with definite article) |
nominative | der tote | die tote | das tote | die toten |
genitive | des toten | der toten | des toten | der toten | |
dative | dem toten | der toten | dem toten | den toten | |
accusative | den toten | die tote | das tote | die toten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) |
nominative | ein toter | eine tote | ein totes | (keine) toten |
genitive | eines toten | einer toten | eines toten | (keiner) toten | |
dative | einem toten | einer toten | einem toten | (keinen) toten | |
accusative | einen toten | eine tote | ein totes | (keine) toten |
Italian
Adjective
tot (invariable)
- so many
Noun
tot m (invariable)
- so much
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).
Numeral
tot (indeclinable)
- so many
Derived terms
Coordinate terms
References
- tot in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tot in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “tot”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
- many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
- Andrew L. Sihler (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, New York, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Occitan
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tut/
Etymology
From Old Provençal tot, from Latin tōtus.
Adjective
tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)
Pronoun
tot
Old French
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adjective
tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)
Declension
Adverb
tot
Descendants
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *daudaz, whence also Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (dauþs), Old Saxon dōd, Old English dēad and Old Norse dauðr.
Adjective
tōt
Related terms
Descendants
- German: tot
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tot/
Determiner
tot m, n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)
Declension
Pronoun
tot
Derived terms
- atot-
- totdeauna
- totodată
Romansch
Alternative forms
Etymology
Adverb
tot