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Webster 1913 Edition
Tittle
Tit′tle
,Noun.
[OE.
titel
, titil
, apparently a dim. of tit
, in the sense of small; cf. G. tüttel
a tittle, dim. of OHG. tutta
teat. Perhaps, however, the same word as title
, n.] A particle; a minute part; a jot; an iota.
It is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one
tittle
of the law to fail. Luke xvi. 17.
Every
tittle
of this prophecy is most exactly verified. South.
Webster 1828 Edition
Tittle
TIT'TLE
,Noun.
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English
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Lowercase i and j, with tittles in red.
Noun
tittle (plural tittles)
- A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
- (typography) 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.
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
- The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.
- 1965, P. A. Marijnen, The Encyclopedia of the Bible:
- The words "jot" and "tittle" in this passage refer to diacritic marks, that is, dashes, dots, or commas added to a letter to accentuate the pronunciation.
- 1987, Andrea van Arkel-De Leeuw van Weenen, Möðruvallabók, AM 132 Fol: Index and concordance, page xii:
- (the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er#Icelandic) "tittles")
- 2008, Roy Blount, Alphabet juice: the energies, gists, and spirits of letters:
- A tittle is more or less the same thing (the dot over an i, for instance), except that it can be traced back to Medieval Latin for a little mark over or under a letter, such as an accent ague or a cedilla. I don't know whether an umlaut is one or two tittles. Maybe it's a jot and a tittle side by side.
- 1590, Bales, The Arte of Brachygraphie (quoted in Daid King's 2001 'The Ciphers of the Monks'):
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:modicum.
Related terms
Translations
a small amount
dot on i and j