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 Latin) 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 may be useful to remember Quintilian's sentence (Ins.Or.8.3.70): "minus est tamen tōtum dīcere, 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^[1], 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 Latin) 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.