tittle

noun

1. a dot or other small mark in writing or printing, used as a diacritic, punctuation, etc.
2. a very small part or quantity; a particle, jot, or whit: He said he didn’t care a tittle.

noun

1. a small mark in printing or writing, esp a diacritic
2. a jot; particle

n.late 14c., “small stroke or point in writing,” representing Latin apex in Late Latin sense of “accent mark over a vowel,” borrowed (perhaps by influence of Provençal titule “the dot over -i-“) from Latin titulus “inscription, heading” (see title (n.)).