Where does “total” come from?

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

total (Tagalog): total; sum

Definitions

  1. total; sum

Ancestry of “total”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Spanishtotaltotal, complete, outright; basically, so, in...
2Medieval Latintotalistotal
3Latintōtuswhole, all, entire, total, complete, every part
4Latintotso many
5Proto-Indo-Europeantotiso many
6Proto-Indo-Europeansóthis; that
Every word from Proto-Indo-European só →Every word from Proto-Indo-European toti →Every word from Latin tot →