jota

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtə/
  • (MLE) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʔə/, /-ɑ/
• 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]
  • (Upper Navarre) IPA^(key): [jo.ta]
  • (Navarro-Lapurdian) IPA^(key): [ɟo.ta]
  • (Soule) IPA^(key): [ʒo.ta]

jota inan

1. The name of the Latin script letter J/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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈʒɔ.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈd͡ʒo.ta]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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Borrowed from Latin iota. Doublet of iota.

jota f (plural jotes)

1. The name of the Latin script letter J/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, 2026

• “jota”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “jota”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈjota]

jota f

1. iota (Greek letter)

• “jota”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “jota”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). Doublet of jod. 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/

• Audio:

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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

See ioota.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoːtɑ/, [ˈjo̞ːt̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -oːtɑ
• Syllabification^(key): jo‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): jo‧ta

jota

1. iota (ninth letter in Greek alphabet)

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

• ioota

• “jota”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 1 July 2023

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

• ajot, jaot, ojat

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• IPA^(key): /xɔ.ta/, /ʁɔ.ta/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ta/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: jò‧ta

jota m or f (invariable)

1. (obsolete) alternative spelling of iota

Borrowed from Spanish jota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“to dance”). Doublet of salta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxota/ [ˈxo.t̪a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

jota f (plural jote)

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

• jato

jota f (plural jotas)

1. beet (Beta vulgaris L.)

   Synonym: bledaraba

• Gui Benoèt (2008), Las plantas, Toulouse: IEO Edicions, →ISBN, page 309

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɔ.ta/

• Audio:

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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. Doublet of iota.

jota m (plural jotas)

1. The name of the Latin script letter J/j.

   Synonym: (Northeast Brazil) ji

jota f (plural jotas)

1. (Portugal, politics, informal) a party youth

jota m or f by sense (plural jotas)

1. (Portugal, politics, informal) member of a party youth

• (Latin-script letter names) letra; á, bê, cê, dê, é, efe, gê / guê, agá, i, jota, cá / capa, ele, eme, ene, ó, pê, quê, erre, esse, tê, u, vê, dáblio, xis, ípsilon, zê

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

• “jota”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

• IPA^(key): /ˈxota/ [ˈxo.t̪a]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

Borrowed 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/j.
3. a jack in a deck of cards

From joto.

jota f (plural jotas)

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

   Synonym: maricón

   ¡Ay que jota!

   Oh what a fag!

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

(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 one iota, nothing at all”).

• dugg
• dyft
• piss
• skit
• skvatt
• smack

• jota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• jota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• jota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• ojat

• hota

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhota/ [ˈhoː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: jo‧ta

Unadapted borrowing from Spanish jota, the Spanish name of the letter J / j, from Latin iota, from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”).

jota (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜆ)

1. (historical) the name of the Latin script letter J/j, in the Abecedario

   Synonym: (in the Filipino alphabet) dyey

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

jota (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜆ)

1. (music, dance) jota

• “jota”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-jóta (“to warm oneself”), from Proto-Atlantic-Congo *-jot- (“to burn (of a fire)”).

-jota (infinitive kota, perfective -jotile)

1. to sit near a fire in order to get warm

• -jotela (“to warm oneself in the sun”)

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya
• Padre Pedro Dupeyron (1880), Pequeno Vademecum da Lingua Bantu na Provincia de Moçambique ou Breve Estudo da Lingua Chi-Yao ou Adjaua‎^[2], Administração do Novo Mensageiro do Coraçao de Jesus, page 153
• Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, M.A., F.R.G.S. (1902), A Handbook of the Yao Language‎^[3], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 161
• Meredith Sanderson, M.R.C.S., F.R.G.S., F.R.A.I. (1922), A Yao Grammar‎^[4], Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 170