iota

Ancient Greek Alphabet

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Wikipedia article on iota

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.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /aɪˈəʊtə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪˈoʊtə/

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• Rhymes: -əʊtə

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:

     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.

• (jot): See Thesaurus:modicum

• iota adscript
• iota subscript

• Ōita, Tai O, Oita, Toia

Catalan Wikipedia has an article on:

iota

Wikipedia ^ca

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencia)
• Hyphenation: io‧ta

iota f (plural iotes)

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

• “iota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “iota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “iota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “iota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French Wikipedia has an article on:

Iota

Wikipedia ^fr

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

• IPA^(key): /jɔ.ta/

iota m (plural iota)

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

• d’un iota

• “iota”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

• ôtai

Galician Wikipedia has an article on:

Iota

Wikipedia ^gl

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

iota m (plural iotas)

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

• “iota”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

iota

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

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

Iota

Wikipedia ^it

• jota (obsolete)

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

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

iota m or f (invariable)

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

• -toia, aito, aitò, iato

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯oː.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjo.ta/,

Disyllabic in Latin, despite being trisyllabic in Ancient Greek.

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

1. iota (Greek letter)

Either indeclinable, or First-declension noun.

• “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.

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

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: i‧o‧ta

iota m (plural iotas)

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

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

Iota

Wikipedia ^es

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

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

iota f (plural iotas)

1. iota (Greek letter)

• “iota”, 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