tōtus
Erscheinungsbild
Uncertain. Perhaps related to Oscan 𐌕𐌏𐌖𐌕𐌏 (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian 𐌕𐌏𐌕𐌀𐌌 (totam, “tribe”, acc.), from Proto-Italic *toutā (“people; populace, citizenship”) from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈtoː.tus/, [ˈt̪oːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈto.tus/, [ˈt̪ɔːt̪us]
- Hyphenation: to‧tus
Adjective
tōtus (feminine tōta, neuter tōtum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)
- whole, all, entire, total, complete, every part [ synonym ▲]
- Synonym: cūnctus
- all together, all at once
Usage notes
- In separating totus from omnis it can be useful to remember Quintilian's sentence (Ins.Or.8.3.70), "minus est tamen totum dicere, quam omnia" ("It is less to say the whole, than all the parts.").
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (pronominal).
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | tōtus | tōta | tōtum | tōtī | tōtae | tōta | |
| Genitive | tōtī̆us | tōtōrum | tōtārum | tōtōrum | |||
| Dative | tōtī | tōtīs | |||||
| Accusative | tōtum | tōtam | tōtum | tōtōs | tōtās | tōta | |
| Ablative | tōtō | tōtā | tōtō | tōtīs | |||
| Vocative | tōte | tōta | tōtum | tōtī | tōtae | tōta | |