Tittle

Noun

 * 1) A small, insignificant amount (of something); a vanishing scintilla; a measly crumb; a minute speck.
 * 2) 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:.
 * 3) *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.
 * 1) *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.
 * 1) *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) "tittles")
 * 1) *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.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:particle

Related terms

 * iota
 * titlo

Thesaurus
ace, atom, birthmark, bit, blaze, blemish, blotch, brand, caste mark, check, checkmark, cicatrix, crumb, cut, dab, dapple, diacritical mark, discoloration, dole, dot, dram, dribble, driblet, drop, droplet, dwarf, earmark, end stop, engraving, farthing, fleck, flick, flyspeck, fragment, freckle, gash, gnat, gobbet, grain, granule, graving, groat, hack, hair, handful, iota, jot, lentigo, little, little bit, lota, macula, mark, marking, microbe, microorganism, midge, minim, minimum, minutia, minutiae, mite, modicum, mole, molecule, mote, mottle, nevus, nick, notch, nutshell, ounce, particle, patch, pebble, pinch, pinhead, pinpoint, pittance, point, polka dot, prick, punctuation, punctuation marks, puncture, reference, reference mark, scar, scarification, score, scotch, scrap, scratch, scratching, scruple, smidgen, smitch, snip, snippet, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spoonful, spot, stain, stigma, stop, strawberry mark, tattoo, tattoo mark, thimbleful, tick, tiny bit, trifling amount, trivia, vanishing point, watermark, whit

Etymology
From titulus:, from  titulus:.

Translations

 * Armenian:, փշուր
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 * Dutch: spatje
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