different between iota vs iotize

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

• iotise

Etymology

1854 pre-iotized, 1874 iotization, iotized, 1890 iotised, 1906 iotise. Adapted from Ancient Greek ?????? (?otízo, “I write with an iota”). Compare iota.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??ta?z/

Verb

iotize (third-person singular simple present iotizes, present participle iotizing, simple past and past participle iotized) (transitive)

1. (linguistics) To precede a spoken vowel sound with a "y" sound, as the u in "pure" and "cute".

Usage notes

The verb form iotize/iotise is exceedingly rare, compared to the participle, noun and adjective forms.

The adjective iotified is used in the names of several Cyrillic letters in the Unicode standard. Although widely cited, it appears to be a nonce borrowing from Slavic, however, as the corresponding back-formations iotify and iotification are unattested.

Synonyms

• iotate (attested 1939 iotated, 1978 iotate)

Derived terms

• iotization
• iotized (adj.)

Related terms

• iota
• iotated
• iotation
• jot
• jod, yod
• yodization, yotization