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English

Alternative forms

• infaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English infante, infaunte, borrowed from Latin ?nfantem, accusative masculine singular of ?nf?ns, nominal use of the adjective meaning 'not able to speak', from ?n- (“not”) + f?ns, present participle of for (“to speak”). The verb is from Anglo-Norman enfanter, from the same Latin source. Doublet of infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n.f?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nf?nt

Noun

infant (plural infants)

1. A very young human being, from birth to somewhere between six months and two years of age, needing almost constant care and/or attention.
   • Synonym: baby
2. (law) A minor.
   • 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

     Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...

3. (obsolete) A noble or aristocratic youth.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:

     Retourned home, the royall Infant fell / Into her former fitt [...].

Derived terms

• infant mortality
• junior infant, senior infant

Related terms

• infancy
• infanteer, infantier
• infanticide
• infantile
• infantry
• infante, infanta

Translations

Verb

infant (third-person singular simple present infants, present participle infanting, simple past and past participle infanted)

1. (obsolete) To bear or bring forth (a child); to produce, in general.

See also

• sudden infant death syndrome
• newborn
• neonate

Anagrams

• Fintan

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ?nf?ns, ?nfantem.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /im?fant/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /im?fan/

Noun

infant m (plural infants)

1. infant, child
2. infante
3. footsoldier

Derived terms

• infanteria

Related terms

• infància

Further reading

• “infant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Slovak

Etymology

From Spanish infante and Portuguese infante.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?infant]

Noun

infant m (genitive singular infanta, nominative plural infanti, genitive plural infantov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. prince, infante (son of a king in Spain and, historically, in Portugal)

Declension

Derived terms

• infantka f

References

• infant in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Scots tot, a shortened form of totum (“small child; tot”), of uncertain origin. Compare totter, tottle. Compare also Old Norse tottr (“name of a dwarf”), Swedish tutte (“small child”), Danish tommeltot (“little child”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t
• Homophones: taught, taut (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. A small child.

2. A measure of spirits, especially rum.
   • 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa

     Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.

   • 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party

     And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.

3. tater tot.
4. (Britain, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for total (“to sum”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?t, IPA^(key): /t?t/

Verb

tot (third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted)

1. To sum or total. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (Britain, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.

   a totted debt

Derived terms

• tot up

Noun

tot (plural tots)

1. A total, an addition of a long column of figures.

Anagrams

• OTT, Ott, TTO, ott

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch tot, from Middle Dutch tot, t?te, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/

Conjunction

tot

1. until

Preposition

tot

1. until

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• totu

Noun

tot m (plural toteanj)

1. old man
2. grandfather

Synonyms

• (old man): mosh, bitãrnu, aush, pap
• (grandfather): ghiush, pap

See also

• babã
• omã

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin t?tus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?tot/
• Rhymes: -ot

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totes)

1. all

   Antonym: cap

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

   Antonym: res

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tot” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tot” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tot” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tot” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinook Jargon

Noun

tot

1. uncle

Coordinate terms

• (with regard to gender): kwalh

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tot

1. rust, corrosion

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin t?tus. Compare Romanian, Romansch, Occitan, and Catalan tot, Italian tutto, French tout, Spanish and Portuguese todo.

Adjective

tot (feminine tota, masculine plural to?)

1. all

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tot, t?te, from Old Dutch tote, toti (“to, until”), equivalent to toe + te. Compare Old Saxon t?te (“to, until”), Old Frisian tot (“until”), Old High German zuo ze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t/
• Hyphenation: tot
• Rhymes: -?t

Preposition

tot

1. to, up to
2. until

Inflection

Derived terms

• tot aan
• tot dan toe
• totdat
• tot en met
• tot nu toe
• tot op
• tot ziens

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tot

Conjunction

tot

1. until, till

Anagrams

• o.t.t.

German

Etymology

From Middle High German t?t, from Old High German t?t (akin to Old Saxon d?d), from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, English dead, Danish død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to?t/
• Homophone: Tod

Adjective

tot (not comparable)

1. dead, deceased

Declension

Derived terms

• mausetot
• scheintot

Related terms

• Tod m

Further reading

• “tot” in Duden online

Italian

Adjective

tot (invariable)

1. so many

Noun

tot m (invariable)

1. so much

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *toti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit ??? (táti), Ancient Greek ????? (tósos).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t??t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tot/, [t??t?]

Determiner

tot (indeclinable)

1. so many

Derived terms

• toti?ns/ toti?s
• totus

Related terms

References

• tot in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tot in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tot in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, ?ISBN

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan tot, from Latin t?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tut/

Adjective

tot m (feminine singular tota, masculine plural tots, feminine plural totas)

1. all
2. each, every

   Synonym: cada

Derived terms

• totjorn

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Derived terms

• subretot
• sustot

Old French

Alternative forms

• tut

Etymology

From Latin t?tus.

Adjective

tot m (oblique and nominative feminine singular tote)

1. all

Declension

Adverb

tot

1. all; completely

Descendants

• Middle French: tout
  • French: tout

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

t?t

1. dead

Related terms

• t?d

Descendants

• Middle High German: t?t
  • Alemannic German:
    • Swabian: daod, dod
  • Bavarian: doud

    Cimbrian: tòat

  • Central Franconian: dut, dot

    Hunsrik: dot

    Luxembourgish: dout

  • East Central German:

    Erzgebirgisch: duud

    Upper Saxon: [Term?]

  • East Franconian: [Term?]
  • German: tot
  • Rhine Franconian: dut, dot
  • Yiddish: ????? (toyt)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin t?tus.

Adjective

tot (nominative singular tuih)

1. all

Descendants

• Catalan: tot

Romagnol

Pronoun

tot

1. everyone

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin t?tus. Compare Aromanian tut, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, Portuguese todo, Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tot/

Determiner

tot m or n (feminine singular toat?, masculine plural to?i, feminine and neuter plural toate)

1. all, (the) whole
2. (in the plural) all, every

Declension

Pronoun

tot

1. everything

Derived terms

• atot-
• totdeauna
• totodat?

References

• tot in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) tut
• (Puter, Vallader) tuot

Etymology

From Latin t?tus.

Adverb

tot

1. (Surmiran) all

Walloon

Etymology

From Old French tot, from Latin t?tus.

Adjective

tot

1. all

Wastek

Noun

tot

1. turkey vulture

References

• wordlist