Tittle

Quick meaning: Tittle is a noun meaning (by extension) A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.

Meaning

(by extension) A small, insignificant amount (of something); a modicum or speck.

More Meanings

1. (Scotland) To chatter.
2. (typography) Any small dot, stroke, or diacritical mark, especially if part of a letter, or of a letter-like abbreviation; in particular, the dots over the Latin letters i and j.

Example Sentences

(the page calls both "a superscript sign (hooklike)" and also a diacritical abbreviation of "er" (er) "tittles")

The foure pricks or tittles are these. The first is a full prick or period. The second is a comma or crooked tittle.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• tittles
• tittling
• tittled

Synonyms for tittle

Depending on context, synonyms include scintilla, smidgen, shred, smidgeon, smidge, smidgin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include iota, scintilla, smidgin, smidge, smidgeon, smidgen.

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