Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To add up; to calculate the sum of. · To equal a total of; to amount to. · To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) · To amount to; to add up to.
An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts. · Sum.
Entire; relating to the whole of something. · Complete; absolute. · Defined on all possible inputs. · Left total: Such that for every x in X there is a y in Y with x R y.
From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin tōtālis, from tōtus (“all, whole, entire”) + -ālis, the former element of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan touto (“community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þēod (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.
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