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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

• (jot): In reference to a phrase in the New Testament: "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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a????t?/
• Rhymes: -??t?
• (US) IPA^(key): /a??o?t?/

Noun

iota (plural iotas)

1. The ninth letter of the Greek alphabet.

   As a Greek numeral, iota represents ten.

   There are twelve iotas on that page.

2. A jot; a very small, insignificant quantity.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     They never depart an iota from the authentic formulas of tyranny and usurpation.

Synonyms

• (jot): See Thesaurus:modicum

Translations

Anagrams

• Oita

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?j?.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?j?.ta/
• Hyphenation: io?ta

Noun

iota f (plural iotes)

1. iota (Greek letter)
2. iota (small amount)

Further reading

• “iota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “iota” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “iota” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “iota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?.ta/

Noun

iota m (plural iota)

1. iota (Greek letter)
2. jot, iota (negligible amount)

Derived terms

• d'un iota

Further reading

• “iota” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• ôtai

Galician

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

Noun

iota m (plural iotas)

1. iota (Greek letter)
2. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

Further reading

• “iota” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Hawaiian

Noun

iota

1. The name of the Latin-script letter J.

Italian

Alternative forms

• jota (obsolete)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?.ta/
• Rhymes: -?ta
• Hyphenation: iò?ta

Noun

iota m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Greek-script letter ?/?; iota
2. (obsolete) Synonym of i lunga

Anagrams

• iato

Portuguese

Noun

iota m (plural iotas)

1. iota (the ninth Greek letter: ?, ?)

Related terms

• jota

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???? (iôta).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i?ota/, [i?o.t?a]

Noun

iota f (plural iotas)

1. iota (Greek letter)

Further reading

• “iota” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• atomus (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English attome, from Middle French athome, from Latin atomus (“smallest particle”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible”), from ?- (a-, “not”) +? ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?t'?m, IPA^(key): /?at?m/
• Homophone: Adam (in dialects with flapping)
• Hyphenation: at?om

Noun

atom (plural atoms)

1. (chemistry, physics) The smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons. [from 16th c.]
2. (history of science) A hypothetical particle posited by Greek philosophers as an ultimate and indivisible component of matter. [from 15th c.]
3. (now generally regarded figuratively) The smallest, indivisible constituent part or unit of something. [from 17th c.]
4. (philosophy) In logical atomism, a fundamental fact that cannot be further broken down.
5. (historical) The smallest medieval unit of time, equal to fifteen ninety-fourths of a second. [from 10th c.]
6. A mote of dust in a sunbeam. [from 16th c.]
7. A very small amount; a whit. [from 17th c.]
8. (computing, programming, Lisp) An individual number or symbol, as opposed to a list; a scalar value. [from 20th c.]
9. (mathematics, algebra) A non-zero member of a Boolean algebra that is not a union of any other elements. Or, a non-zero member of a Boolean lattice that has only zero below it. [from 20th c.]

   In a Venn diagram, an atom is depicted as an area circumscribed by lines but not cut by any line.

10. (mathematics, set theory) An element of a set that is not itself a set; an urelement. [from 20th c.]
11. (usually capitalised as "Atom") A member of an age group division in hockey for ten- to 11-year-olds.

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• ?
• chemical element

Further reading

• atom on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, moat, mota, toma

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?atom]

Noun

atom m

1. (physics) atom

Related terms

• atomový
• atomický

Further reading

• atom in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• atom in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

Via German Atom n and Latin atomus f from Ancient Greek ?????? (??????) f (átomoi (phúseis)), ????? (??????) n (átoma (s?mata), “indivisible particles of matter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [a?t?o?m]

Noun

atom n (singular definite atomet, plural indefinite atomer)

1. atom

Inflection

Hungarian

Etymology

From English atom, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (témn?, “I cut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??tom]
• Hyphenation: atom
• Rhymes: -om

Noun

atom (plural atomok)

1. atom

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• atom in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• atom in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (’A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2021)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch atoom (“atom”), from French atome, from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?atom]
• Hyphenation: a?tom

Noun

atom (first-person possessive atomku, second-person possessive atommu, third-person possessive atomnya)

1. (chemistry, physics) atom, the smallest possible amount of matter which still retains its identity as a chemical element, now known to consist of a nucleus surrounded by electrons.
2. (figuratively) modern

   Synonyms: modern, mutakhir

3. (figuratively) plastic, a synthetic, solid, hydrocarbon-based polymer, whether thermoplastic or thermosetting.

   Synonym: plastik

Derived terms

Further reading

• “atom” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From English atom, from Old French atome, from Latin atomus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /atom/
• Rhymes: -atom, -tom, -om

Noun

atom (plural atom-atom, informal 1st possessive atomku, impolite 2nd possessive atommu, 3rd possessive atomnya)

1. (physics) atom (physics: smallest possible amount of matter retaining its chemical properties)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos, “indivisible, uncut, undivided”), both from ?- (a-, “not, without”), from Proto-Hellenic *?- (“un-, not; without, lacking”), from Proto-Indo-European *n?- (“not, un-”) + and from ????? (témn?, “I cut, hew, wound, butcher”), fom Proto-Indo-European *tm?-n-h?-, from *temh?- (“to cut”).

Noun

atom n (definite singular atomet, indefinite plural atom or atomer, definite plural atoma or atomene)

1. an atom

Derived terms

• atommasse
• atomvekt

Related terms

• atom- (prefix)

References

• “atom” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos)

Noun

atom n (definite singular atomet, indefinite plural atom, definite plural atoma)

1. an atom

Derived terms

• atommasse
• atomvekt

Related terms

• atom- (prefix)

References

• “atom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin atomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ado?/

Noun

atom m

1. atom, mote

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Irish: atam
  • Irish: adamh

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.t?m/

Noun

atom m inan

1. (physics) atom

Declension

Derived terms

• atomowy

Further reading

• atom in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French atome, from Latin atomus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?tom/

Noun

atom m (plural atomi)

1. atom

Declension

Further reading

• atom in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (átomos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?to?m/
• Hyphenation: a?tom

Noun

àt?m m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. atom

Declension

References

• “atom” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

atom c

1. atom; the smallest particle to retain the properties of the element
2. (historical) atom; the theoretically smallest possible particle

Declension

Related terms

See also

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French atome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??t?m]

Noun

atom (definite accusative atomu, plural atomlar)

1. (physics) atom
2. a kind of sugary drink common in and around Mersin province

Declension