jota

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtə/
• Rhymes: -oʊtə

jota (plural jotas)

1. A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations.
2. The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time.

• JATO, jato

• IPA^(key): (Southern) /xota/, [xo̞.t̪a]
• IPA^(key): (Northern) /jota/, [jo̞.t̪a]
  • (Biscayan) IPA^(key): [d͡ʒo.ta]
  • (Gipuzkoan) IPA^(key): [xo.ta]
  • (Navarrese) IPA^(key): [jo.ta]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) IPA^(key): [ɟo.ta]
  • (Souletin) IPA^(key): [ʒo.ta]

jota inan

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

• (Latin-script letter names) a, be, ze, de, e, efe, ge, hatxe, i, jota, ka, ele, eme, ene, eñe, o, pe, ku, erre, ese, te, u, uve, uve bikoitz, ixa, i greko, zeta

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒo.ta/

From Latin iota. Doublet of iota.

jota f (plural jotes)

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from Arabic شَطْحَة‎ (šaṭḥa).

jota f (plural jotes)

1. jota (Iberian folk dance)
2. jota (music to which a jota is danced)

• mateixa

• “jota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

• “jota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “jota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “jota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “jota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”).

jota n

1. iota (Greek letter)

• jota in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• jota in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). The sense "small amount" developed in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: Eer de hemel en aarde vergaat, zal er niet één jota of één tittel vergaan van de wet.— 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoː.taː/

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jota f (plural jota's, diminutive jotaatje n)

1. iota (Greek letter)
2. (negative polarity item) iota (small amount)

   Ik snap er geen jota van.

   I don’t understand a thing of it.

• (small amount): snars, (vulgar) bal, reet, hol

• IPA^(key): /ˈjotɑ/, [ˈjo̞t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -otɑ
• Syllabification^(key): jo‧ta

jota

1. partitive singular of joka; who, whom, which, that.

   Nainen, jota en näe,...

   The woman (who/that) I don't see...

   Nainen, jota varten ostin kukkia,...

   The woman for whom I bought flowers... / The woman (that/who) I bought flowers for...

See ioota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoːtɑ/, [ˈjo̞ːt̪ɑ]
• Syllabification^(key): jo‧ta

jota

1. iota (ninth letter in Greek alphabet)

The recommended Finnish spelling for the name of this letter is ioota.

• ioota

• ajot, jaot, ojat

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• IPA^(key): /xɔ.ta/, /ʁɔ.ta/

jota m (plural jotas)

1. jota (dance)

• “jota”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

jōta

1. Romanization of 𐌾𐍉𐍄𐌰

jota m or f (invariable)

1. (obsolete) Alternative spelling of iota

• jato

jota f (plural jotas)

1. (Beta vulgaris L.)[1] beet

• [1]: bledaraba

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta), from Phoenician 𐤉‬‎ (y‬ /yōd/).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ta/

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• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

jota f

1. iota (Greek letter Ι, ι)

Borrowed from Spanish jota, from older xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta, from Latin saltō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

jota f

1. jota (Iberian folk dance)

• jota in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• jota in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Homophone: Jota
• Hyphenation: jo‧ta

From Latin iota, from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”), from Semitic.

jota m (plural jotas)

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

• i, cá/capa

• iota

Borrowed from Spanish jota (“jota”), from earlier xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”).

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jota (dance)
2. jota (music)

• saltar
• salto

• IPA^(key): /ˈxota/ [ˈxo.t̪a]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

From Latin iota, from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”).

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jot; iota
2. The name of the Latin-script letter J.
3. a jack in a deck of cards

• ni jota (“nothing at all”)

From joto.

jota f (plural jotas)

1. (Mexico, derogatory, vulgar) Alternative form of joto (“faggot”)

   ¡Ay que jota!

   Oh what a fag!

   Synonym: maricón

From older xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”). Doublet of salta.

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jota (Iberian folk dance)
2. jota (music to which a jota is danced)

• → English: jota

• “jota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /²juːta/

jota n

1. (negative polarity item) iota (small amount)

Almost exclusively used in the expression inte ett jota (“not the slightest, not at all, nothing”).

• ojat