jota

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊtə/

jota (plural jotas)

1. A traditional popular dance of the Iberian peninsula with regional variations.
2. The music to which this dance is set, normally of 3/4 or 6/8 time.

• JATO, jato

From Latin iota.

jota f (plural jotes)

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

jota f (plural jotes)

1. jota (Iberian folk dance)
2. jota (music to which a jota is danced)

• mateixa

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”).

jota n

1. iota (Greek letter)

• jota in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• jota in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta). The sense "small amount" developed in reference to a phrase in the New Testament: Eer de hemel en aarde vergaat, zal er niet één jota of één tittel vergaan van de wet.— 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoː.taː/

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jota f (plural jota's, diminutive jotaatje n)

1. iota (Greek letter)
2. (negative polarity item) iota (small amount)

   Ik snap er geen jota van.

   I don’t understand a thing of it.

• (small amount): snars, (vulgar) bal, reet, hol

• IPA^(key): /ˈjotɑ/, [ˈjo̞t̪ɑ]
• Hyphenation: jo‧ta
• Rhymes: -otɑ

jota

1. Partitive singular form of joka; who, whom, which, that.

   Nainen, jota en näe,...

   The woman (who/that) I don't see...

   Nainen, jota varten ostin kukkia,...

   The woman for whom I bought flowers... / The woman (that/who) I bought flowers for...

• ioota

• IPA^(key): /ˈjoːtɑ/, [ˈjo̞ːt̪ɑ]
• Hyphenation: jo‧ta

jota

1. iota (ninth letter in Greek alphabet)

The recommended Finnish spelling for the name of this letter is ioota.

• ajot, jaot, ojat

Borrowed from Spanish jota.

• IPA^(key): /xɔ.ta/, /ʁɔ.ta/

jota m (plural jotas)

1. jota (dance)

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

jōta

1. Romanization of 𐌾𐍉𐍄𐌰

jota m or f (invariable)

1. Obsolete spelling of iota

jota f (plural jotas)

1. (Beta vulgaris L.)[1] beet

• [1]: bledaraba

• (Portugal, Carioca) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔtɐ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʒɔta/
• Homophone: Jota

From Latin iota, from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”), from Semitic.

jota m (plural jotas)

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

• i, cá/capa

• iota

Borrowed from Spanish jota (“jota”), from earlier xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“I dance”).

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jota (dance)
2. jota (music)

• saltar
• salto

• IPA^(key): /ˈxota/, [ˈxot̪a]

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From Latin iota, from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “iota”).

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jot; iota
2. The name of the Latin-script letter J.
3. a jack in a deck of cards

jota f (plural jotas)

1. (Mexico) gay male

   ¡Ay que jota!

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   Synonym: maricón

From older xota, from Mozarabic *šáwta (“jump”), from Latin saltō (“I dance”).

jota f (plural jotas)

1. jota (Iberian folk dance)
2. jota (music to which a jota is danced)

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

• IPA^(key): /²juːta/

jota n

1. (negative polarity item) iota (small amount)

Almost exclusively used in the expression inte ett jota (“not the slightest, not at all, nothing”).