determiner
tot
tot (indeclinable)
Classical[ˈtɔt]Ecclesiastical[ˈtɔt]
№ 259 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- indeclinableso many
Quid faciant paucī contrā tot mīlia fortēs?
What can a few brave men do against so many thousands [of soldiers]? (Ovid here recounts the Battle of the Cremera.)8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.229Coordinate term: quot
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- quot homines, tot sententiae
- many men, many minds.
tŏt,
I. num. adj. indecl., so many.
I. Lit.
A. With a corresp. quot, quotiens, quantum, ut.
1. With quot:
hoc brevissime dicam, neminem umquam tam impudentem fuisse, qui ab dis immortalibus tot et tantas res tacitus auderet optare, quot et quantas di immortales ad Cn. Pompeium detulerunt, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 16, 48: quot homines, tot causae, id. de Or. 2, 32, 140: qui tot annos, quot habet, designatus consul fuerit, id. Att. 4, 8, b, 2: quot haberet corpora pulvis, Tot mihi natales contingere vana rogavi, Ov. M. 14, 138: tot mala sum passus, quot in aethere sidera lucent, id. Tr. 1, 5, 47.—2. With quotiens:
si tot consulibus meruisset, quotiens ipse consul fuisset, Cic. Balb. 20, 47: si tot labores et pericula suscepissem, quotiens ductu meo hostes fusi, Sall. H. 2, 96, 1 Dietsch. — 3. With quantum:
quantum putabis ei rei satis esse, tot vites ablaqueato, Cato, R. R. 114, 1. — 4. With ut:
quae cum viderem tot vestigiis impressa, ut in his errari non posset, Cic. Fam. 5, 20, 5.—B. Absol.
1. In connection with adjj. or advv. of kindred meaning, so many, so great a number:
reliquae tot et tantae et tam graves civitates, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 5, § 14; so, tot tantaeque difficultates, id. Quint. 2, 10; and: in his tot et tantis malis, id. Tusc. 5, 10, 29; cf. id. Par. 2, 16: tot viri ac tales, id. Cael. 28, 67: tot ac tam validae manus, Liv. 24, 26, 13: tot, tam valida oppida, id. 5, 54, 5: ad haec tot tam inopinata incerti stupentesque, id. 25, 37, 13; repeated: ille cultus tot nobilium virorum, tot illustrium feminarum, Curt. 3, 13, 10.—2. Alone, the correl.-clause being implied from the context, so many, such a great number, so very many:
en excetra tu, quae tibi amicos tot habes, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 87: nunc domi nostrae tot pessumi vivunt, id. Most. 4, 1, 18: tot me impediunt curae, Ter. And. 1, 5, 25: cum tot signis eadem natura declaret, quid velit, Cic. Lael. 24, 88; id. Rep. 3, 10, 17: ex centum quattuor centuriis, tot enim reliquae sunt (centuriae), etc., id. ib. 2, 22, 39: tot civitatum conjuratio, Caes. B. G. 3, 10: unde tot hostes subito exorti, Liv. 25, 37, 12: tot caede procorum Admonitus non est, Ov. M. 10, 624: cum tot curis regem videret urgeri, Curt. 3, 7, 13.—Rarely without a subst.: an timebant, ne tot unum ... superare non possent? Cic. Cael. 28, 66: ex tot in Atridā pars quota laudis erat? Ov. Am. 2, 12, 10.— With omnes: tot omnibus saeculis, Min. Fel. 5.—II. Transf.
A. To designate an optional, indefinite number, so many, such and such a number:
volo dari ei, qui id egerit, a ceteris heredibus aureos tot, Dig. 34, 5, 8. — B. As a relative numeral, also, for so few:
vix credent tantum rerum cepisse tot annos, Albin. 1, 339. Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
tot adj. num indecl.
3 TA-, so many, such a number of : ab dis tot et tantas res optare, quot et quantas, etc.: quot homines, tot causae: si tot consulibus meruisset, quotiens ipse consul fuisset. — So many, so very many, such a great number of : reliquae tot et tantae et tam graves civitates: tot viri ac tales: ad haec tot tam necopinata incerti stupentesque, L.: Tot me inpediunt curae, T.: tot civitatum coniuratio, Cs.: tot caede procorum Admonitus non est, O.: quae cum viderem tot vestigiis inpressa, ut in his errari non posset.—As subst m., so many men : an timebant, ne tot unum . . . superare non possent?: Ex tot in Atridis pars quota laudis erat? O.
Origins
From Proto-Indo-European *tóti, adverb from *só. Cognate with Sanskrit तति (táti), Ancient Greek τόσος (tósos).
Descendants
- Italiantot