ἰῶτα
See also: ιώτα
Ancient Greek
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Etymology
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤉𐤃 (yd /yōd/, the name of 𐤉 (y)).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.ɔ̂ː.ta/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
Noun
ῐῶτᾰ • (ĭôtă) n (indeclinable)
- iota, the name for the ninth letter Ι (I), ι (i) of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
- (figuratively) a jot; an iota (a small mark or stroke)
Descendants
- Greek: ιώτα (ióta), γιώτα (gióta)
- → Czech: jota
- → Dutch: jota
- → English: iota, jot
- → Finnish: ioota
- → Gothic: 𐌾𐍉𐍄𐌰 (jōta)
- → Latin: iōta
- → Old Armenian: յովտ (yovt)
- → Russian: йо́та (jóta), ио́та (ióta)
References
- “ἰῶτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1940), A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἰῶτα”, in Liddell & Scott (1889), An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰῶτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935), Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001), A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2503 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible