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語源

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

Sense “jot, small quantity” in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: ”one iote or one title, shall in no wise passe from the law”, iota being the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /aɪˈəʊtə/
• (米国発音) IPA: /aɪˈoʊtə/
• 韻: -əʊtə

名詞

iota (plural iotas)

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι).

   As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.

   There are twelve iotas on that page.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (Varennes):

     Human ill-nature needs but some Homoiousian iota, or even the pretence of one; and will flow copiously through the eye of a needle: thus always must mortals go jargoning and fuming […] .

2. The Latin letter Ɩ (minuscule: ɩ).
3. (chiefly in the negative) A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   • 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:

     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:

     It was because Sanchez didn't have an iota of faith in what he was saying.

派生語

参考

• (Greek-script letter names) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega

参照

アナグラム

• Ōita, Tai O, Oita, Toia

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈjoː.ta]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈjɔː.t̪a]

Disyllabic in Latin, despite being trisyllabic in Ancient Greek.

名詞

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

1. iota (Greek letter)

語形変化

Either indeclinable, or First-declension noun.

参照

• “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.