ἰῶτα
ἰῶτα, the letter iota
ἰῶτα [ῐ], τό, indecl.,
- (Hebr. yôd) the letter ι, Pl. Cra. 418b, Aen. Tact. 31.18, Call.Gramm. ap. Ath. 10.453d, etc.
- 2 line, stroke, on a sundial, Bull.Soc.Alex. 4.83 (iii B.C.).
- 3 prov., of anything very small, smallest letter, jot, Ev.Matt. 5.18.
ἰῶτα (τὸ) indécl. la lettre ι, Callias (Ath. 453d); fig. pour signifier un rien, peu de chose, l’ι étant la plus petite lettre de l’alphabet, NT. Matth. 5, 18.
ἰῶτα, τό, indecl. Namen des Buchstaben ι, Callias bei Ath. X.453d.
Strong 2503
iota (Heb.
ἰῶτα
- the letter iota, proverb. of anything very small, the smallest letter, a jot (the Hebr. yod), NTest.
ἰῶτα
- Ι, ι, ἰῶτα, τό, indecl., ninth letter of the Gr. alphabet: as numeral ι 10, but ι 10, 000. The ι subscriptum was called ι προσγεγραμμένον, adscriptum, and was so written till the 13th century, τῶι (not τῷ) , as is still done in capital letters ΤΩΙ., Changes of ι:
- 1Doric, ι for υ in the 3rd pl. and part. pres., as φιλέοισι ἐοῖσα for φιλέουσι, etc.; so also Μοῖσα Ἀρέθοισα for Μοῦσα, etc.:—it was added to α in some Adjs., and in the aor1 part., as μέλαις τάλαις ῥίψαις for μέλας, etc.; and in the acc. pl. fem. of 1st decl., as ταῖς νύμφαις for τὰς νύμφας.
- 2Boeot. and Lacon. as σιός, σεῖος, for θεός, θεῖος.
- 3ῑ easily passes into ει, whence forms like εἴλω ἴλλω, εἴλη ἴλη, εἴρην ἰρήν: ι was sometimes exchanged with ε, as in ἑστία, Ionic ἱστίη:—often inserted to lengthen the syll., e. g. εἰν εἰς ξεῖνος κεινός πνείω ὑπείρ διαί μεταί παραί, for ἐν, ἐς, etc. The Quantity of ι varies.