todo

See also: Todo, tōdo, tödö, and to-do

English

Noun

todo (plural todos)

1. Alternative form of to-do

Anagrams

• do to, doot, OOTD

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish todo. Doublet of todas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtodo/ [ˈto.d̪o]
• Hyphenation: to‧do

Adjective

tódo (plural torodo, Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

1. all, everything

   Synonyms: gabos, anas

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese todo, from Latin tōtus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [toðʊ]

Adjective

todo (feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas)

1. all

Derived terms

• tódalas
• tódolos

Pronoun

todo

1. everything

   Antonym: nada

2. all the time

   Ogano todo é chover ― This year rains all the time (literally, “This year everything is raining”)

Further reading

• “todo”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “todo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “todo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “todo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Japanese

Romanization

todo

1. Rōmaji transcription of とど
2. Rōmaji transcription of トド

Ladino

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish todo (“all”), from Latin tōtus. Compare Catalan tot, French tout. Related to total.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Dallas):

  (file)

Determiner

todo m (Hebrew spelling טודו, feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas, diminutive todiko)

1. all; each; every

   Synonym: cada

   • 2020 January 29, Metin Delevi, “El 27 de Enero es el dia de memoria de las viktimas del Nazismo, del Olokosto…”, in Şalom‎^[1]:

     Devemos de saver ke el antisemitizmo es una de las formas ekstremas del rasizmo ma ay otras formas de rasizmo i devemos de luchar kon todo modo forma del rasizmo.

     We must know that antisemitism is one of the extreme forms of racism, but there are other forms of racism and we must fight every form of racism.

Pronoun

todo (Hebrew spelling טודו)

1. all; everything

   Antonyms: ich, nada

   • 1994, Eli Shaul, Folklor de los judios de Turkiya‎^[2], Isis, →ISBN, page 123:

     Todo lo ke vos kero dainda no saves,
     Dizeme bulisa si tu bien me keres,
     Kon todo te digo ke seyas mazaloza,
     Por todo el mundo ke seyas alavada.

     All that I want to tell you you still don’t know,
     Tell me, lady, if you really want me,
     With all that I tell you so that you finish happy,
     So that you finish world-famous.

Derived terms

• sovre todo

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tōtum. Cognate with Old Spanish todo.

Pronunciation

• (Galicia) IPA^(key): /ˈto.do/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.dʊ/

Determiner

todo m (plural todos, feminine toda, feminine plural todas)

1. all

Pronoun

todo

1. everything

Descendants

• Fala: tó
• Galician: todo
• Portuguese: todo, tudo (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• Universo Cantigas - "todo₁"
• Universo Cantigas - "todo₂"

Old Spanish

Alternative forms

• tod, tot, toto

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tōtum. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese todo.

Determiner

todo m (feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas)

1. all; each; every
   • 1140 – 1207, Anonymous, Cantar de mío Cid 1913:

     Andar le qⁱero amyo çid en toda pro

     I want to always support the Cid.

     (literally, “I want to walk for my Cid in every advantage.”)

Pronoun

todo

1. all; everything
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 2r:

     Estonz exio melchẏsedec a abraam a la carrera. e bédixol. ⁊ dẏxo. Benedicto sea abraam de dẏos el alto. e diol pá ⁊ vino q́ anos en figura de xṕs. e abraam a el diol el diezmo. de todo lo q́ aduzie.

     [Estonz exio Melchisedec a Abraam a la carrera e bendixo-l. Et dixo: “Benedicto sea Abraam de díos el alto” et dio-l pan e vino que a nos enfigura de Cristo. E Abraam a él dio-l el diezmo de todo que aduzie.]

     Then Melchizedek sent Abram on his way and blessed him. And he said: “Blessed be Abram by God above”. And he gave him bread and wine, which to embodies Christ. And Abram gave him a tenth of all that he had taken.

2. each (every one)
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 62v. a.:

     ela ſemblanca de ſus fazes cuemo fazes de omne e fazes de leó adieſtro atodas quatro. e fazes de buey. De ſiniſtro atodas .iiij. e fazes daguila atodas .iiij.

     [E la semblança de sus fazes cuemo fazes de omne e fazes de león a diestro a todas quatro e fazes de buey de sinistro a todas .IIII. e fazes d’ águila a todas .IIII.]

     Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left each had the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.

Descendants

• Ladino: todo, טודו
• Spanish: todo
  • Tagalog: todo

References

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “todo”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 498

Portuguese

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese todo, from Latin tōtus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tewtéh₂ (“people; tribe”). Compare Galician and Spanish todo, Catalan tot, French tout, Italian tutto, and Romanian tot.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.du/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.du/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈto.do/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈto.du/ [ˈto.ðu]

• Hyphenation: to‧do

Determiner

todo (feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas)

2. every; all (all of a group)

   Synonym: cada

   Todas as crianças devem ler livros.

   All children must read books.

   Faço isso todos os dias.

   I do that every day.

4. whole, entire

   Li todo o livro.

   I read the whole book.

Usage notes

• In the meaning "whole, entire", todo can also behave syntactically as an adjective that follows the noun (see below).

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:todo.

Derived terms

• a toda
• todinho (diminutive)
• todes (gender-neutral plural)

Adjective

todo (feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas, not comparable)

2. whole, entire

   Synonym: inteiro

   Li o livro todo.

   I read the whole book.

   Faço isso o dia todo.

   I do that all day.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:todo.

Noun

todo m (plural todos)

2. whole (something complete)

   Synonym: totalidade

   Deves observar o fenómeno como um todo.

   You must observe the phenomenon as a whole.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:todo.

Adverb

todo (not comparable)

1. (degree) intensifier

   Ela tá te esperando, tá toda arrumada e tudo mais.

   She is waiting for you and she's looking all pretty and stuff.

Derived terms

• todos

Related terms

• total
• tudo

Descendants

• Guinea-Bissau Creole: tudu
• Kabuverdianu: tudu

Rayón Zoque

Noun

todo

1. paper

Derived terms

• todokenu

References

• Harrison, Roy, B. de Harrison, Margaret, López Juárez, Francisco, Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)‎^[3] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 36

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish todo (“all”), from Latin tōtus. Compare Catalan tot, French tout. Related to total, which was borrowed from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtodo/ [ˈt̪o.ð̞o]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: to‧do

Determiner

todo m (feminine toda, masculine plural todos, feminine plural todas, diminutive todito)

1. all; every

   Antonym: ningún

   todos los días ― every day

   Todos somos jóvenes. ― We are all young.

   todo tipo de ― every type/kind/sort of; all kinds/sorts of

2. each; every

   Synonym: (more common) cada

   Toda persona es un individuo. ― Every person is an individual.

Pronoun

todo

1. everything

   Antonym: nada

   todo lo que dijiste ― everything that you said

Derived terms

• a toda brida
• a toda greña
• a toda mecha
• a toda rienda
• a toda ropa
• a todo
• a todo esto
• a todo mecate
• a todo plan
• a todo tirar
• a todo trance
• a todo trapo
• a todo tren
• a todos
• ante todo
• con toda el alma
• con todas las letras
• con todo
• de todas maneras
• de todos los diablos
• de todos modos
• de una vez por todas
• del todo
• en toda la línea
• en todo (“throughout, across; in all, in any”)
• en todo caso
• en todo lo descubierto
• en un todo
• imposible de toda imposibilidad
• me cago en todo
• por todo
• por todo (“throughout, across, all over; for all; about everything”)
• por todo lo alto
• por todos lados
• por todos los medios
• por todos los santos
• ser todo corazón
• ser todo oídos
• sobre todo
• toda la vida
• todavía
• todo a cien
• todo avante
• todo bien
• todo cristo
• todo el día
• todo el mundo
• todo el rato
• todo el tiempo
• todo es ponerse
• todo junto
• todo lo contrario
• todo mundo
• todo o nada
• todo se le vuelve
• todo se vuelve
• todopoderoso
• todos a una
• todos y cada uno
• y todo

Further reading

• “todo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English toad.

Noun

todo

1. frog, toad
2. With the particle no, used as an intensifier, particularly for switi.

   A nyan switi no todo.

   The food is delicious.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• todos — all; whole of

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish todo. Doublet of todas.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtodo/ [ˈt̪oː.d̪o]
• Rhymes: -odo
• Syllabification: to‧do

Adjective

todo (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

1. all; whole of

   Synonyms: lahat, lahat-lahat, lahatan, buo

2. exerting one's full strength, voice, shout, run, etc.
3. (gambling) entirely put as bet in a single game

Derived terms

• itodo
• pagtodo
• todo-kayod
• todo-todo
• todohin

Related terms

• Todos los Santos

Noun

todo (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜇᜓ)

1. full exertion of one's strength, voice, shout, run, etc.
2. (gambling) act of betting all one's money in a single game

Further reading

• “todo”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018