Where does “total” come from?

total (Middle French) comes from Old French total, from Medieval Latin totalis, from Latin tōtus, from Latin tot, from Proto-Indo-European toti, from Proto-Indo-European só — this; that.

Ancestry of “total”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Frenchtotal
2Medieval Latintotalistotal
3Latintōtuswhole, all, entire, total, complete, every part
4Latintotso many
5Proto-Indo-Europeantotiso many
6Proto-Indo-Europeanthis; that

Words derived from “total

Every word from Proto-Indo-European