different between tote vs toter

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /to?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

Probably from Low German tute ("bag"). Cognate with German Tüte (“bag”). Most likely not of Germanic origin. Confer Finnish tuoda (“to carry, bear, bring, fetch, get”).

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. A tote bag.
2. A heavy burden.
3. (logistics) A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
   • 2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants (page 129)

     They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.

Translations

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. (Southern US) To carry or bear.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.

Translations

Etymology 2

Short for total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing.

Alternative forms

• tot

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Translations

Etymology 3

Short for totalizator.

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. (Britain, Australia) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
   • 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark

     He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,

     He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,

2. (Britain, Australia) Pari-mutuel betting.

Translations

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

tote

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

Ido

Etymology

tota (“whole, entire”) +? -e (“adverb”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to.te/

Adverb

tote

1. entirely, perfectly, thoroughly

Related terms

• tota (“whole, entire”)
• totala (“total”)
• totale (“totally”)
• entote (“ensemble, altogether, on the whole, in all, in a body, bodily, overall”)

Interlingua

Determiner

tote

1. (quantifying) all, the entire

Japanese

Romanization

tote

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Latin

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t??t??]

• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?to.te/, [?t???t??]

Adjective

tote

1. vocative masculine singular of totus

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch tuote, equivalent to toe + te.

Preposition

t?te

1. up to, towards, to (a specific destination or point in time)
2. at (a specific point in time)
3. with respect to

Alternative forms

• tot, toete, toet

Descendants

• Dutch: tot
  • Afrikaans: tot
• Limburgish: tót

Further reading

• “tote (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “tote (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

English

Etymology

tote +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??t?(?)

Noun

toter (plural toters)

1. One who totes or carries something.
   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     His name was Vadian, and a cunning toter

   • 2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma! (page 31)

     Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.

Translations

See also

• stone-toter

Anagrams

• Otter, Treto, ortet, otter, toret, torte

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

toter

1. inflection of tot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural