Going Dutch Going Dutch "Going Dutch" (sometimes written with lower-case dutch) is a term that indicates that each person participating in a paid activity covers their own expenses, rather than any one person in the group defraying the cost for the entire group. The term stems from restaurant dining etiquette in the Western world where each person pays for their meal. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form, a pejorative) and doing Dutch. There are two possible senses—each person paying their own expenses, or the entire bill being split (divided evenly) between all participants. In strict usage, "Going
Vulgar Latin vocabulary or evolved forms of "tōtus" (originally "entire") for a similar meaning; Occitan/Portuguese/Spanish " cada" 'each, every', "tudo"/"todo" in Portuguese, "todo" in Spanish, "tot" in Catalan, "tout" in French and "tot" in Romanian. The plural "tutti" in Italian means "all, every" and can overlap in meaning with "ogni" ("ogni giorno" and "tutti i giorni" both mean "every day"), and the singular "tutto" still means "entire" as well as "all". Sometimes a Classical Latin word appears in a Romance language alongside the equivalent Vulgar Latin word: classical "caput", "head", and vulgar "testa" (originally "pot") in Italian, French and Catalan. In Romanian "cap"