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/ˈtəʊtəl/TOH-tuhl
/ˈtoʊtəl/TOH-tuhl
Meaningwhole
Common meaning: whole
Other meanings: the full amount
- totwhole, all of itLewis & Short, Latin Dictionary (1879), p. 1882 · scan
- aladjective ending: relating to
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√TU‘swell, be strong or large’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 141, p. 735 · scan
- Latintōtus, -a, -um‘whole, all of it’
- Frenchidiom
- Englishtotal‘whole’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Latin tōtus ‘whole, all of it’.
Roots
- tōtus, -a, -um Latin “whole, all of it”
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