"total" in seven languages
Meaningtotal
Spanish
total
/toˈtal/
learned
French
total
/tɔtal/
learned
Masculine plural totaux.
Italian
totale
/toˈtale/
learned
Portuguese
total
/toˈtaw/
learned
Romanian
total
/toˈtal/
learned
Catalan
total
/tuˈtal/
learned
English
total
/ˈtoʊtəl/
from Latin/French · Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis
English → ItaliantotaltotaleCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
TŌTĀLEM (Medieval Latin)‘entire (from TŌTUS 'all')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
A medieval scholars' adjective built on TŌTUS 'all', whose inherited descendants are the everyday todo, tout, tutto.
English relatives: totally, totality
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In a sentence
- esEl coste total es de cincuenta euros.
- frLe coût total est de cinquante euros.
- itIl costo totale è di cinquanta euro.
- ptO custo total é de cinquenta euros.
- roCostul total este de cincizeci de euro.
- caEl cost total és de cinquanta euros.
- enThe total cost is fifty euros.