tittleの意味・使い方・発音

tittle

英 ['tɪt(ə)l] 美

tittle (n.): late 14c., "small stroke or point in writing" (Wyclif, in Matt. v:18), translating Latin apex in Late Latin sense of "accent mark over a vowel," which itself translates Greek keraia (literally "a little horn"), used by the Greek grammarians of the accents and diacritical points, in this case a Biblical translation of Hebrew qots, literally "thorn, prick," used of the little lines and projections by which the Hebrew letters of similar form differ from one another.

Wyclif's word is borrowed from a specialized sense of Latin titulus (see title (n.)), which was used in Medieval Latin (and in Middle English and Old French) to indicate "a stroke over an abridged word to indicate letters missing" (and compare Proven?al titule "the dot over -i-").
"As apex was used by the Latin grammarians for the accent or mark over a long vowel, titulus and apex became to some extent synonymous; hence Wyclif's use of titil, titel to render L. apex" [OED]
Compare tilde, which is the Spanish form of the same word.

2.I don 't care one jot or one tittle of what he says.

彼が言ったことは少しも気にしない。

3.We abate nothing of our just demands：not one jot or tittle do we recede.

私たちの正当な要求は決して割引しません：私たちは少しも譲歩しません。dd>
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4.Well-directed tittle -tattle may easily causes its victim to lose his or her livelihood.: ターゲット性の強いチャットは、被害者に茶碗を捨てさせやすい。