单词 | iota |
释义 | iotan. 1. The name of the Greek letter Ι, ι, corresponding to the Roman I, i; the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. iota subscript (Latin iota subscriptum), a small iota written beneath a long vowel, forming the second element of a diphthong, as in ᾳ, ῃ, ῳ. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > Greek alphac1175 muc1175 betaa1400 taua1400 chic1400 deltac1400 etac1400 kappac1400 gamma?a1425 lambda?a1425 nu?a1425 phi?a1425 pi?a1425 psi?a1425 rho?a1425 xi?a1425 zeta?a1425 upsilon1559 san1584 omega1599 theta1603 iota1607 sigma1607 omicron1631 digamma1699 epsilon1842 zeta1850 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 290 The Misæan horses (written with Iota and simple Sigma, as Eustathius writeth) are the most excellent. 1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants (1692) ii. ii. 65 All this Stir had been made about an Iota: For the whole Question was, Whether homousia or homoiusia should be received for Faith. 1893 E. M. Thompson Handbk. Greek & Lat. Palaeogr. xii. 175 The frequent dotting of the iota in this MS. is peculiar. 2. figurative (after Matthew v. 18; see jot n.1): The least, or a very small, particle or quantity; an atom. (Mostly with negative expressed or implied.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a piece or bit > a particle grotc888 crumba1387 motec1390 particlea1398 pointa1400 specka1400 atomy1584 moment1594 dust1597 pickle1604 mite1605 atom1626 iota1636 ramentum1658 bodikin1668 part1669 dustling1674 scintilla1674 minim1686 fleck1753 molecule1799 heartbeat1855 particule1889 1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica iv. 42 Shall we lose, or sleightly pass by, any iota or tittle of the Booke of God? 1643 A. Burgess Diffic. of Reformation 23 You are accomptable to God for jotaes and tittles. 1696 T. Brookhouse Temple Opened 28 This has been done in England to an Iota. 1771 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 251 Not an iota should be yielded of the principle of the bill. 1786 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 549 I would..demand, in a tone that could not be resisted, the punctual fulfilment of every iota of the treaty on the part of Britain. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 124 We will not part with one iota of our privileges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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