different between private vs total

English

Etymology

From Latin pr?v?tus (“bereaved, deprived, set apart from”), perfect passive participle of pr?v? (“I bereave, deprive”), from pr?vus (“private, one's own, peculiar”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per; compare prime, prior, pristine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?a?v?t/, /?p?a?v?t/
• Hyphenation: pri?vate

Adjective

private (comparative more private, superlative most private)

1. Belonging to, concerning, or accessible only to an individual person or a specific group.
2. Not accessible by the public.

3. Not in governmental office or employment.
4. Not publicly known; not open; secret.
5. Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded.

6. Not traded by the public.
7. Secretive; reserved.

8. (US, of a room in a medical facility) Not shared with another patient.
9. (not comparable, object-oriented programming) Accessible only to the class itself or instances of it, and not to other classes or even subclasses.

Synonyms

• (done in the view of others): secluded
• (intended only for one's own use): personal
• (not accessible by the public):
• (not publicly known): secret

Antonyms

• public

Hyponyms

• package-private

Translations

Noun

private (plural privates)

1. A soldier of the lowest rank in the army.
2. A doctor working in privately rather than publicly funded health care.
   • 1973, Health/PAC Bulletin (issues 48-67, page 2)

     In the cities and towns of California, privates are pressuring county governments to close or reduce in size their hospitals and to pay private hospitals for the care of low-income patients. Thus everything is stacked against public hospitals.

   • 1993, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Refugee Affairs, The implementation of employer sanctions: Hearings

     Because you are already moving people with the limitations of what we did in 1982 on the capping of Medicare, you are finding out that the privates are picking up that slack, […]

3. (euphemistic, in the plural) The genitals.
4. (obsolete) A secret message; a personal unofficial communication.
5. (obsolete) Personal interest; particular business.

   • Nor must I be unmindful of my private.

6. (obsolete) Privacy; retirement.
7. (obsolete) One not invested with a public office.
8. (usually in the plural) A private lesson.

Synonyms

• (genitals): bits, private parts

Translations

Derived terms

References

• private at OneLook Dictionary Search
• private in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• "private" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 242.
• private in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Esperanto

Etymology

From privata (“private”) +? -e (adverbial ending).

Adverb

private

1. privately

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t?

Adjective

private

1. inflection of privat:
   1. strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
   2. strong nominative/accusative plural
   3. weak nominative all-gender singular
   4. weak accusative feminine/neuter singular

Italian

Adjective

private

1. feminine plural of privato

Verb

private

1. feminine plural past participle of privare
2. second-person plural indicative present of privare
3. second-person plural imperative of privare

Anagrams

• prative

Latin

Verb

pr?v?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pr?v?

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

private

1. definite singular of privat
2. plural of privat

Swedish

Adjective

private

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of privat.

English

Alternative forms

• totall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English total, from Old French total, from Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”), of unknown origin. Perhaps related to Oscan ???????????????????? (touto, “community, city-state”), Umbrian ???????????????????? (totam, “tribe”, acc.), Old English þ?od (“a nation, people, tribe”), from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh? (“people”). More at English Dutch, English thede.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??.t?l/
• (General American) enPR: t??tl, IPA^(key): /?to?.t?l/, [t?o????], [t????]
• Rhymes: -??t?l

Noun

total (plural totals)

1. An amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts.

   A total of £145 was raised by the bring-and-buy stall.

2. (informal, mathematics) Sum.

   The total of 4, 5 and 6 is 15.

Synonyms

• (sum): sum

Derived terms

• subtotal

Translations

See also

• addition, summation: (augend) + (addend) = (summand) + (summand) = (sum, total)
• subtraction: (minuend) ? (subtrahend) = (difference)
• multiplication: (multiplier) × (multiplicand) = (factor) × (factor) = (product)
• division: (dividend) ÷ (divisor) = (quotient), remainder left over if divisor does not divide dividend

Adjective

total (comparative more total, superlative most total)

1. Entire; relating to the whole of something.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, […]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.
2. (used as an intensifier) Complete; absolute.

3. (mathematics) (of a function) Defined on all possible inputs.

Synonyms

• (entire): entire, full, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
• (complete): absolute, complete, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

Derived terms

• total allergy syndrome
• total eclipse
• totalism
• totalitarian
• totality
• totally
• total order
• total war

Translations

Verb

total (third-person singular simple present totals, present participle (UK) totalling or (US) totaling, simple past and past participle (UK) totalled or (US) totaled)

1. (transitive) To add up; to calculate the sum of.

   When we totalled the takings, we always got a different figure.

2. To equal a total of; to amount to.

   That totals seven times so far.

3. (transitive, US, slang) to demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss)

   Honey, I’m OK, but I’ve totaled the car.

4. (intransitive) To amount to; to add up to.

   It totals nearly a pound.

Synonyms

• (add up): add up, sum
• (demolish): demolish, trash, wreck

Translations

Anagrams

• lotta

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total (epicene, plural totales)

1. total

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, attested from the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /to?tal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tu?tal/

Adjective

total (masculine and feminine plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalment

Related terms

• totalitat

Noun

total m (plural totals)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

References

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology 1

From French total.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tota?l/, [t?o?t?æ??l]

Adjective

total

1. total

Inflection

Noun

total c (singular definite totalen, plural indefinite totaler)

1. total

Inflection

Etymology 2

Compound of to (“two”) and tal (“number”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /total/, [?t?ot?al]

Noun

total n (singular definite totallet, plural indefinite totaller)

1. two

Inflection

Synonyms

• 2-tal

French

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.tal/
• Homophones: totale, totales

Adjective

total (feminine singular totale, masculine plural totaux, feminine plural totales)

1. total
2. perfect

Antonyms

• (total): partiel

Noun

total m (plural totaux)

1. total

Related terms

• au total
• question totale
• sous-total
• totalement
• totaliser
• totalitaire
• totalité
• tout

Further reading

• “total” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais)

1. complete, entire

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total

Further reading

• “total” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskade
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin t?t?lis, from totus.

Adjective

total (neuter singular totalt, definite singular and plural totale)

1. total

Derived terms

• totalskadd
• totaltap

References

• “total” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis (“total”), from Latin t?tus (“whole”) + -?lis (“-al”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /tu.?ta?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /to.?taw/

Adjective

total m or f (plural totais, comparable)

1. complete; entire (to the greatest extent)

   Synonyms: completo, inteiro

2. total (relating to the whole of something)

Antonyms

• (complete): incompleto, parcial

Noun

total m (plural totais)

1. total (amount obtained by the addition of smaller amounts)

   Synonym: totalidade

Related terms

Romanian

Etymology

From French total

Adjective

total m or n (feminine singular total?, masculine plural totali, feminine and neuter plural totale)

1. total

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin t?t?lis, from t?tus (“all, whole, entire”).

Adjective

total (plural totales)

1. total, complete, outright

Adverb

total

1. (colloquial) basically, so, in short (used to summarise)

Noun

total m (plural totales)

1. total

Derived terms

• en total

See also

• todo

References

• “total” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swedish

Etymology

From German total, from French total, from Latin totalis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Adjective

total (not comparable)

1. total

Declension

References

• total in Svensk ordbok (SO)

Anagrams

• Lotta, lotta