German

Alternative forms

• Jott (rarer)

Noun

Jot n ‎(genitive Jot, plural Jot)

1. The letter J in the Latin and German alphabet.

Declension

Derived terms

• (English) yot
• (Greek) γιοτ

See also

• (Latin script letter names) Buchstabe; A, Be, Ce, De, E, Eff, Ge, Ha, I, Jot, Ka, El, Em, En, O, Pe, Qu, Er, Eß/Ess/Es, Te, U, Vau, We, Ix, Ypsilon, Zett/Zet ^{(Category: de:Latin letter names)}

English

Noun

jot ‎(plural jots)

1. An iota; a point; a tittle; the smallest particle.

   He didn't care a jot for his work.

   • Bible, Matthew v. 18

     Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

   • Shakespeare

     Neither will they bate / One jot of ceremony.

2. A brief and hurriedly written note.
   • 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 53:

     "I say, it is no uneven jot, to pass from the more faint and obscure examples of Spermatical life to the more considerable effects of general Motion in Minerals, Metalls, and sundry Meteors ..."

Synonyms

• (small amount): see also Wikisaurus:modicum.

Translations

Derived terms

• every jot and tittle
• not a jot or tittle

Verb

jot ‎(third-person singular simple present jots, present participle jotting, simple past and past participle jotted)

1. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

   Tell me your order, so I can jot it down.

Derived terms

• jot down

Translations

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• got (northern Moselle Franconian)
• gut (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German (*)guod, northern variant of guot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /joːt/

Adjective

jot ‎(masculine jode, feminine jot, comparative besser, superlative et beste)

1. (Ripuarian) good