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tittle
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?t?t.?l/
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin titulus (“small stroke, diacritical mark, accent”), from Latin titulus (“title”). Doublet of tilde, title, and titulus.
Noun
tittle (plural tittles)
- A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.
- (typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or if a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
- The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
- 1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii:
- (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er#Icelandic) "tittles")
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:modicum.
Related terms
- iota
- titlo
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
tittle (third-person singular simple present tittles, present participle tittling, simple past and past participle tittled)
- (Scotland) To chatter.
Related terms
- tattle
- tittle-tattle
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mote
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /mo?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /m??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
- Homophone: moat
Etymology 1
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), but of uncertain ultimate origin. Sometimes linked to Spanish mota (“speck”) and English mud..
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- A small particle; a speck.
- Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
- a. 1729, Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":
- What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
- An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
Translations
See also
- floater
Etymology 2
From Middle English moten, from Old English m?tan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *m?tan? (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Danish måtte (“might, may”), Ancient Greek ???? (méd?, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.
Verb
mote (third-person singular simple present mote, no present participle, simple past and past participle must)
- (archaic) May or might. [from 9th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (obsolete) Must. [9th-17th c.]
- (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may. [from 9th c.]
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
- ‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
Usage notes
- Generally takes an infinitive without to.
Etymology 3
See moot (“a meeting”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
- a wardmote in the city of London
- (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
- a folk mote
- (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
Derived terms
- folk-mote
- mote bell
- shire-mote
Etymology 4
From remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- A tiny computer for remote sensing; a component element of smartdust.
References
Anagrams
- -tome, Tome, tome
Inari Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *mo??.
Noun
mote
- mud
Inflection
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Italian
Noun
mote f pl
- plural of mota
Anagrams
- temo
Japanese
Romanization
mote
- R?maji transcription of ??
Latin
Participle
m?te
- vocative masculine singular of m?tus
Middle English
Verb
mote
- inflection of moten (“to have to”):
- present subjunctive singular
- present indicative/subjunctive plural
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From French mode
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural moter, definite plural motene)
- fashion
Derived terms
- motebevisst
- motehus
- moteshow
- moteverden
References
- “mote” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From French mode
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural motar, definite plural motane)
- fashion
Derived terms
- motebevisst
- motehus
- moteshow
- motemedveten, motemedviten
References
- “mote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
From Provençal or French mot (“word”); see also Italian motto (“word”).
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- motto
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mote/, [?mo.t?e]
Etymology 1
From French mot (“word, saying”) or Occitan mot.
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- nickname
- motto (heraldry)
Related terms
- motejar
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Quechua mut'i.
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- (South America) hulled cereal, especially pearl barley and hominy
Derived terms
- mote de maíz
- mote de trigo
Further reading
- “mote” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
Volapük
Noun
mote
- dative singular of mot
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