{"id":23102,"date":"2023-10-12T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23102"},"modified":"2023-10-12T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T14:54:16","slug":"jot-tittle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23102","title":{"rendered":"Jot &#038; Tittle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jot and Tittle<\/strong> &#8211; it would be a good name for firm of printers, but actually means a smallest detail or the smallest details. It is often preceded by <strong>every<\/strong>, as in \u201cevery jot and tittle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/jotandtittle.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Jot and Title\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A version of this phrase appears in the Bible (Matthew 5:18):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another example include \u201cHe did not get every jot and tittle, but the plan ultimately adopted was viable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jot<\/strong> can refer to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iota (\u0399 \u03b9), the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.<\/li>\n<li>A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.<\/li>\n<li>A brief and hurriedly written note.<\/li>\n<li>A moment, an instant. (<em>obsolete)<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from Latin <em>i\u014dta<\/em> (a Greek letter), from Ancient Greek <em>\u1f30\u1ff6\u03c4\u03b1<\/em> (i\u00f4ta [\u0399 \u03b9] &#8211; a letter in the Greek alphabet; a very small part of writing). The name of the letter comes from Phoenician \ud802\udd09\u202c\u200e (y\u202c &#8211; y\u014dd\/yodh), which comes from Proto-Semitic <em>*yad-<\/em> (hand). The letter is based on an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph meaning hand or arm (\ud80c\udc9d).<\/p>\n<p>The English word <strong>iota<\/strong> (a jot, a very small, insignificant quantity) comes from the same roots.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tittle<\/strong> can refer to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes from the Middle English <em>title \/ titel(e)<\/em> (inscription, small mark or stroke made with a pen), from Anglo-Norman <em>titil<\/em>, from Medieval Latin <em>titulus<\/em> (title of a book, heading, tablet, inscription, epitaph), which probably comes from Etruscan.<\/p>\n<p>Words from the same roots include <strong>tilde<\/strong> (e.g. \u00e3, \u00f1, \u00f5), and <strong>title<\/strong> in English, and <strong>tildar<\/strong> (to declare, brand, stigmatize, put a tilde or other accent mark over, to go into a trance) in Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jot_and_tittle\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jot_and_tittle<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jot#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/jot#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/iota#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/iota#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tittle#English\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tittle#English<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/MED46030\/track?counter=1&#038;search_id=39062284\">https:\/\/quod.lib.umich.edu\/m\/middle-english-dictionary\/dictionary\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tildar#Spanish\">https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tildar#Spanish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jot and Tittle &#8211; it would be a good name for firm of printers, but actually means a smallest detail or the smallest details. It is often preceded by every, as in \u201cevery jot and tittle\u201d. A version of this phrase appears in the Bible (Matthew 5:18): For verily I say unto you, Till heaven [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[258,179,85,104,222,107,10,15,259,64,216,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-egyptian","category-ancient-greek-","category-anglo-norman","category-english","category-etruscan-mekh-rasnal","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-phoenician","category-spanish","category-vulgar-latin-sermo-vulgaris","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23107,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23102\/revisions\/23107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}