totus

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”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈtoː.tus/, [ˈt̪oːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.tus/, [ˈt̪ɔːt̪us]
• Hyphenation: to‧tus

tōtus (feminine tōta, neuter tōtum); first/second-declension adjective (pronominal)

1. whole, all, entire, total, complete, every part

   Synonym: cūnctus

2. all together, all at once

• 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.").

First/second-declension adjective (pronominal).

• pars prō tōtō
• Tēla Tōtīus Terrae
• tōtālis

• integer
• omnis

• “tōtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “totus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• totus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the perfect harmony of the universe: totius mundi convenientia et consensus
    
  • to spread over the whole body: per totum corpus diffundi
    
  • to be at the beck and call of another; to be his creature: totum se fingere et accommodare ad alicuius arbitrium et nutum
    
  • to devote oneself absolutely to the pursuit of pleasure: se totum voluptatibus dedere, tradere
    
  • to devote oneself entirely to literature: se totum litteris tradere, dedere
    
  • to be quite engrossed in literary studies: se totum in litteras or se litteris abdere
    
  • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
    
  • to love some one very dearly, with all one's heart: aliquem toto pectore, ut dicitur, amare (Leg. 18. 49)
    
  • to put oneself entirely in some one's hands: totum se committere, tradere alicui
    
  • to abandon oneself (entirely) to debauchery: se (totum) libidinibus dedere
    
  • credit is low throughout Italy: fides tota Italia est angusta
    
  • to devote oneself body and soul to the good of the state: totum et animo et corpore in salutem rei publicae se conferre
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 625

From tot (“so many”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.tus/, [ˈt̪ɔt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈto.tus/, [ˈt̪ɔːt̪us]

tŏtus (feminine tŏta, neuter tŏtum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (very rare) so great a ——

   quotcumque pedum spatia facienda censueris, totam partem longitudinis et latitudinis duces

   of however many feet you have determined the gaps are to be made, you will take as great a part of the length and breadth

First/second-declension adjective.

• “tŏtus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “totus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• totus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.