tote – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to tote
Participle: toted
Gerund: toting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	tote
we	Let's tote
you	tote

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to produce a total by adding numbers together

add, add together, add up, cast, count up, foot up, reckon up, sum up, summate, tally, tally up, tot, tot up, total, tote up

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. "to carry," 1677, of unknown origin; originally attested in Virginia, but OED discounts the popular theory of its origin in a W.African language (cf. Kikongo tota "pick up," Kimbundu tuta "carry, load," related to Swahili tuta "pile up, carry"). Tote bag is first recorded 1900.
2. Possibly from Middle Low German tûte, tǖte (“horn, conical paper bag”), whence also German Tute (“horn, bugle”) and German Tüte (“bag, paper bag”). Compare also Scots tout (“drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Faroese strútur (“spout”), Icelandic stútur (“spout”), Norwegian and Swedish tut (“spout”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”).
3. Alternatively, from a Bantu language; compare Kongo tota (“to pick up”), Kimbundu tuta (“to carry, load”), Swahili tuta (“to pile, carry”). See: Scots 'tout', Frisian, Saterlandic 'Tüütje', Swahili 'tuta'.

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