Etymology

tutti

T1U1T1T1I1

Today it means: All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices. Full definition →

Italian tutti ← Latin totus
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromtotus“all”
  2. Italian · borrowed fromtutti
  3. English todaytutti

From Italian tutti, from Latin totus (“all”).

Words from the same roots

Italiantutti all →

tute

Latintotus all →

totipalmatetotus porcus

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.