ἰῶτα
See also: ιώτα
Ancient Greek
| previous letter θῆτα |
  |
following letter κάππα |
| Ι ι – English: iota | ||
Etymology
Borrowed from Phoenician 𐤉 (yōd).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /i.ɔ̂ː.ta/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iˈo.ta/
Noun
ἰῶτα • (iôta) n (indeclinable)
- iota, the name for the ninth letter Ι, ι of the Ancient Greek alphabet.
- (figuratively) a very small part of writing: jot.
Descendants
References
- ἰῶτα in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἰῶτα in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἰῶτα in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2503 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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