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/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə
• (US) IPA^(key): /aɪˈoʊtə/

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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[ames] Dodsley, […], OCLC 946162345:

     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.

• (jot): See Thesaurus:modicum

• Oita

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

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ta/
• 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, 2023
• “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.

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 [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• ôtai

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta).

iota m (plural iotas)

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

• “iota” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

iota

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

• 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) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯oː.ta/, [ˈi̯oːt̪ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjo.ta/, [ˈjɔːt̪ä]

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

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ

iota m (plural iotas)

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

• jota

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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014