jot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /d͡ʒɒt/    美 /d͡ʒɑt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The smallest letter or stroke of any writing; an iota.
    — This bond doth giue thee here no iote of blood, / The vvords expreſly are a pound of fleſh: / Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of fleſh, / But in the cutting of it, if thou doſt ſhed / One drop of Chriſtian blood, thy lands and goods / Are by the lavves of Venice, confiſcate / Vnto the State of Venice.
  2. A jerk, a jolt. obsolete,rare
    — [F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.
  3. A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit. broadly
    — He didn’t care a jot for his work.
  4. A small, or the smallest, amount of a thing; a bit, a whit.; An instant, a moment. broadly,obsolete
    — So vveake my povvres, ſo ſore my vvounds appeare, / that vvonder is hovv I ſhould liue a iot, / ſeeing my hart through launched euery vvhere / vvith thouſand arrovves, vvhich your eies haue ſhot: […]
  5. A brief and hurriedly written note.
    — "Lover," you say; "how beautiful that is, / That little word!” […] / Yes, it is beautiful. I have marked it long, / Long in my dusty head its jot secreted, / Yet my heart never knew this word a song / Till in the night softly by you repeated.
动词 v.
  1. Chiefly followed by down: to write (something) quickly; to make a brief note of (something). transitive
    — Tell me your order so I can jot it down.
  2. To jerk or jolt (something); to jog. dialectal,transitive
    — Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.

词形变化

jots plural jots present,singular,third-person jotting participle,present jotted participle,past jotted past jots present,singular,third-person jotting participle,present jotted participle,past jotted past jots plural

词汇关系

衍生词
jot and tittle
相关词
tittle

词源

词源 1
The noun is borrowed from Latin iōta (“the letter iota of the Ancient Greek alphabet”), from Ancient Greek ἰῶτα (iôta, “ninth letter of the Ancient Greek alphabet; (figurative) very small part of writing, jot”), from Phoenician 𐤉 (y‬, “tenth letter of the Phoenician abjad, yodh”). Doublet of iota and yodh.
Etymology 1, noun sense 3 (“brief and hurriedly written note”) is derived from the verb.
The verb is probably borrowed from Scots jot, from English jot (noun): see above.
词源 2
The verb is possibly onomatopoeic, suggesting a jerking motion. The noun is derived from the verb.
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