jotとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dʒɑt/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /dʒɒt/
• 韻: -ɒt

名詞

jot (複数形 jots)

1. Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Matthew 5:18,^[1]

     Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

   • 1904, Bliss Carman, “Christmas Eve at St. Kavin’s” in Pipes of Pan: Songs from a Northern Garden, Boston: L.C. Page, p. 107,^[2]

     Of old, men said, “Sin not;

     By every line and jot

     Ye shall abide; man’s heart is false and vile.”

2. A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.

   He didn't care a jot for his work.

   • c. 1607, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act II, Scene 2,^[3]

     Sir, the people

     Must have their voices; neither will they bate

     One jot of ceremony.

   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, London: W. Taylor, 3rd edition, p. 159,^[4]

     After this I spent a great deal of Time and Pains to make me an Umbrella; I was indeed in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brasils, where they are very useful in the great Heats which are there: And I felt the Heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the Equinox […]

   • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Volume I, Chapter 8,^[5]

     “If they had uncles enough to fill all Cheapside,” cried Bingley, “it would not make them one jot less agreeable.”

   • 1903, George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act I,^[6]

     […] the artist’s work is to show us ourselves as we really are. Our minds are nothing but this knowledge of ourselves; and he who adds a jot to such knowledge creates new mind as surely as any woman creates new men.

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Chapter 8,^[7]

     “What does that matter? Arsenic would put poor Emily out of the way just as well as strychnine. If I’m convinced he did it, it doesn’t matter a jot to me how he did it.”

3. (obsolete) Moment, instant.
   • 1595, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti in Kenneth J. Larson (ed.), Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition, Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1997, Sonnet LVII, p. 91,^[8]

     So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare,

     that wonder is how I should liue a iot,

     seeing my hart through launched euery where

     with thousand arrowes, which your eies haue shot:

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene 2,^[9]

     No, faith, I'll not stay a jot longer.

   • 1728, Lewis Theobald, Double Falshood: or, the Distrest Lovers, London: J. Watts, Act I, Scene 1, p. 12,^[10]

     Making my Death familiar to my Tongue

     Digs not my Grave one Jot before the Date.

4. A brief and hurriedly written note.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:

     "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors ..."

   • 1920, Robert Nichols, “Sonnets to Aurelia, IV” in Aurelia and Other Poems, London: Chatto & Windus, p. 29,^[11]

     “Lover,” you say; “how beautiful that is,

     That little word!” […]

     Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long,

     Long in my dusty head its jot secreted,

     Yet my heart never knew this word a song

     Till in the night softly by you repeated.

同意語

• (small amount): see also Thesaurus:modicum.

派生語

• every jot and tittle
• not a jot or tittle

参考

• tittle

動詞

jot (三人称単数 現在形 jots, 現在分詞 jotting, 過去形および過去分詞形 jotted)

1. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

   Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.

派生語

• jot down

アナグラム

• OJT, OTJ