English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin. Compare totter, tottle. Compare also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: taught, taut (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun[edit]

tot (plural tots)

1. A small child.

   He learned to run when he was just a tot.

2. 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.

3. tater tot.
4. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A foolish fellow.
   • a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland:

     Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Short for total (“to sum”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• enPR: tŏt, IPA^(key): /tɒt/

Verb[edit]

tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)

1. To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (UK, 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[edit]

• tot up

Noun[edit]

tot (plural tots)

1. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams[edit]

• OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch tot, from Middle Dutch tot, tōte, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

Conjunction[edit]

tot

1. until

Preposition[edit]

tot

1. until

Aragonese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin totus.

Adjective[edit]

tot

1. all

Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• totu

Noun[edit]

tot m (plural toteanj)

1. old man
2. grandfather

Synonyms[edit]

• (old man): mosh, bitãrnu, aush, pap
• (grandfather): ghiush, pap

See also[edit]

• babã
• omã

Catalan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtot/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ot

Adjective[edit]

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)

1. all

   Antonym: cap

Pronoun[edit]

tot

1. everything

   Antonym: res

Derived terms[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinook Jargon[edit]

Noun[edit]

tot

1. uncle

Coordinate terms[edit]

• (with regard to gender): kwalh

Crimean Tatar[edit]

Noun[edit]

tot

1. rust, corrosion

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tōtus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.

Adjective[edit]

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural toč)

1. all

Pronoun[edit]

tot

1. everything

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /tɔt/

• audio

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• Hyphenation: tot
• Rhymes: -ɔt

Preposition[edit]

tot

1. to, up to
2. until
3. (telephony, Suriname) Used to answer a telephone call, followed by one's name, shortened from "u spreekt tot..."
   • 2020 August 25, Gerold Rozenblad, “Tafra drai [The table has turned]”, in De Ware Tijd‎^[1], retrieved 14 July 2021:

     Gaat een telefoon over ergens in Paramaribo. "Ja, halloo tot Rabin."

     A phone rings somewhere in Paramaribo. "Yes, hello. This is Rabin."

   Synonym: (Netherlands) met

Inflection[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• tot aan
• tot dan toe
• totdat
• tot en met
• tot nu toe
• tot op
• tot ziens

Descendants[edit]

• Afrikaans: tot
• Berbice Creole Dutch: tutu
• Jersey Dutch: tut
• Negerhollands: tot, tee

Conjunction[edit]

tot

1. until, till

   Ik kan niet wachten tot het hier ook weer gaat sneeuwen! ― I can't wait till it snows here as well!

Anagrams[edit]

• o.t.t.

German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle High German tōt, from Old High German tōt (akin to Old Saxon dōd), from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /toːt/

• Audio

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• Homophone: Tod

Adjective[edit]

tot (not comparable)

1. dead, deceased

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• mausetot
• scheintot

Related terms[edit]

• Tod m

Further reading[edit]

• “tot” in Duden online

Italian[edit]

Adjective[edit]

tot (invariable)

1. so many

Noun[edit]

tot m (invariable)

1. so much

Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit तति (táti), Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).

Pronunciation[edit]

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t̪ɔt̪]

Determiner[edit]

tot (indeclinable)

1. so many

Derived terms[edit]

• totiēns/ totiēs
• totus

Related terms[edit]

References[edit]

• 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
• tot in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • many men, many minds: quot homines, tot sententiae
    
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /tut/

• Audio (Béarn)

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Adjective[edit]

tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)

1. all
2. each, every

   Synonym: cada

Derived terms[edit]

• totjorn

Pronoun[edit]

tot

1. everything

Derived terms[edit]

• subretot
• sustot

Old French[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• tut

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective[edit]

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

1. all

Declension[edit]

Adverb[edit]

tot

1. all; completely

Descendants[edit]

• Middle French: tout
  • French: tout

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective[edit]

tōt

1. dead

Related terms[edit]

• tōd

Descendants[edit]

• Middle High German: tōt
  • Alemannic German:
    • Swabian: daod, dod
  • Bavarian: doud

    Cimbrian: tòat

  • Central Franconian: dut, dot

    Hunsrik: dot

    Luxembourgish: dout

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: duud

    Upper Saxon: [Term?]

  • East Franconian: [Term?]
  • German: tot
  • Rhine Franconian: dut, dot
  • Yiddish: טויט‎ (toyt)

Old Occitan[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tōtus.

Adjective[edit]

tot (nominative singular tuih)

1. all

Romagnol[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

tot

1. everyone

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tōtus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /tot/

• Audio

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Determiner[edit]

tot m or n (feminine singular toată, masculine plural toți, feminine and neuter plural toate)

1. all, (the) whole

   Tot timpu mă enervezi. ― You annoy me all the time.

2. (in the plural) all, every

Declension[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

tot

1. everything

   Tot ce faci contează. ― Everything you do matters.

2. everyone

   Vă mulțumesc tuturor. ― I thank you all.

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

• atot-
• totdeauna
• totodată

Noun[edit]

tot n (uncountable)

1. the whole, entirety

   Synonyms: întreg, unitate

   1. (figuratively) world, universe

      Synonyms: lume, univers

2. crucial part, crux

Declension[edit]

References[edit]

• tot in DEX online - Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) tut
• (Puter, Vallader) tuot

Etymology[edit]

From Latin tōtus.

Adverb[edit]

tot

1. (Surmiran) all

Walloon[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French tot, from Latin tōtus.

Adjective[edit]

tot

1. all

Wastek[edit]

Noun[edit]

tot

1. turkey vulture

References[edit]

• wordlist