different between speck vs iota

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?k/
• Homophone: spec
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English spekke, from Old English specca (“small spot, stain”). Cognate with Low German spaken (“to spot with wet”).

Noun

speck (plural specks)

1. A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
2. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:modicum

   • a. 1864, Walter Savage Landor, quoted in 1971, Ernest Dilworth, Walter Savage Landor, Twayne Publishers, page 88,

     Onward, and many bright specks bubble up along the blue Aegean; islands, every one of which, if the songs and stories of the pilots are true, is the monument of a greater man than I am.
3. (zoology) A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.

Translations

Verb

speck (third-person singular simple present specks, present participle specking, simple past and past participle specked)

1. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.

   paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1991, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg (editors), The Major Works, 2003, paperback, page 534,

     Each flower of slender stalk, whose head though gay / Carnation, purple, azure, or specked with gold, / Hung drooping unsustained,

Etymology 2

From earlier specke, spycke (probably reinforced by Dutch spek, German Speck), from Middle English spik, spyk, spike, spich, from Old English spic (“bacon; lard; fat”), from Proto-Germanic *spikk?, *spik? (“bacon”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Späk, Dutch spek, German Speck, Icelandic spik.

Noun

speck (uncountable)

1. Fat; lard; fat meat.
2. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
3. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
4. The fat of the hippopotamus.

Translations

Anagrams

• pecks

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Speck, from Middle High German spec, from Old High German spek, from Proto-Germanic *spik? (“bacon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?k/
• Hyphenation: spèck

Noun

speck m (invariable)

1. speck (type of ham)

   Hypernym: salume

Further reading

• Speck Alto Adige on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

References

• speck in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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.