iota

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See also: Iota, IOTA, ióta, ìota, and íota

English

WOTD – 8 June 2008
Ancient Greek Alphabet
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Ι ι
Ancient Greek: ἰῶτα
Wikipedia article on iota

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta), ultimately from Proto-Semitic *yad- (“hand”). Doublet of yodh.

  • (jot): In reference to a phrase in the New Testament: "until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law" (Mt 5:18), iota being the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /aɪˈəʊtə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /aɪˈoʊtə/
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  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊtə

Noun

iota (plural iotas)

  1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.
    As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.
    There are twelve iotas on that page.
  2. A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
    • 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. , London: J Dodsley, , →OCLC:
      They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation.
    • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 99:
      His expression had not changed one iota except perhaps for an additional tightening of his lips.
    • 1982, John Cleve, Spaceways #7: The Manhuntress, page xviii. 194:
      [E]very iota of its gravitic power.
    • 2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in SCP Foundation‎, archived from the original on 2 January 2024:
      Around dawn, Eastern Standard Time, Sanchez announced that it was no longer possible for ω-0 to stay together as a single entity. He split the remains of the Task Force into three. Ulrich and the malformed memory of Wheeler were assigned to the same subteam. Sanchez gave final instructions to continue to search for Bart Hughes, or any kind of ally among the living, be they Foundation or GOI or civilian. But the instructions were confusing and incomplete. It was because Sanchez didn't have an iota of faith in what he was saying. He couldn't see a way to the far side of this. It was about little more than survival now. It was about figuring out terms on which to face death.

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Catalan

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). Doublet of jota.

Pronunciation

Noun

iota f (plural iotes)

  1. iota (Greek letter)
  2. iota (small amount)

Further reading

French

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

Pronunciation

Noun

iota m (plural iota)

  1. iota (Greek letter)
  2. jot, iota (negligible amount)

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Further reading

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Galician

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

Noun

iota m (plural iotas)

  1. iota (Greek letter)
  2. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

Further reading

Hawaiian

Noun

iota

  1. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

Italian

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Alternative forms

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjɔ.ta/
  • Rhymes: -ɔta
  • Hyphenation: iò‧ta

Noun

iota m or f (invariable)

  1. the name of the Greek-script letter Ι/ι; iota
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of i lunga

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Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

Pronunciation

Disyllabic in Latin, despite being trisyllabic in Ancient Greek.

Noun

iōta n (indeclinable) or iōta f (genitive iōtae); first declension

  1. iota (Greek letter)

Declension

Either indeclinable, or First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative iōta iōtae
Genitive iōtae iōtārum
Dative iōtae iōtīs
Accusative iōtam iōtās
Ablative iōtā iōtīs
Vocative iōta iōtae

References

  • “iota”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • iota in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). Doublet of jota.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
  • Hyphenation: i‧o‧ta

Noun

iota m (plural iotas)

  1. iota (the ninth Greek letter: ι, Ι)

Spanish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /iˈota/ , /ˈʝota/
  • IPA(key): (Argentina and Uruguay) /iˈota/ , /ˈjota/

  • Rhymes: -ota
  • Syllabification: i‧o‧ta, io‧ta

Noun

iota f (plural iotas)

  1. iota (Greek letter)

Further reading

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