what is the name of the dot on the letter 'i'?

Answer 1

It is called a "superscript dot".
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutsymbols/dot?view=uk

Some refer to it as a "tittle". If we understand this word to mean "small stroke of a pen", that is reasonable, though the English word originally it referred to something else (see below). But it may not be the best term to use, and since it can used for other marks, it is not the most precise.


The word "tittle" comes from the Latin word for a diacritical mark (and is related to the word "title").
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tittle

The English word comes to us from John Wycliffe's translation of the Bible into English in the mid-14th century. Translating the Latin of Matthew 5:18 (which used the word "apex") he used "tittle". In the Greek the word used literally means "horn". By this, Jesus was probably referring to tiny marks on the top of certain Hebrew letters that distinguished them from very similar Hebrew letters (hence the modern paraphrase "least stroke of a pen").
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19980629

Note that "tittle" in this verse is is the second member of a pair, the now familiar "jot and tittle". The term "jot" renders Greek "iota" -- the name of the small Greek letter "i", though Jesus probably was speaking of the tiny equivalent HEBREW letter "yod".

(From this biblical usage, "tittle" came to mean "the smallest detail". In the 17th century people would refer to something fitting "to a tittle". Later this was shortened to the form now familiar to us "to a t".)

Answer 2

I agree it is called a tittle.
Some classify it as a superdot.

Answer 3

tittle

Answer 4

tittle

Answer 5

Dot.

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