scintilla

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to make sure that whoever did this does not have one scintilla, not one thin dime out of this tragedy.

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  1. noun A minute amount; an iota or trace.
  2. noun A spark; a flash.

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  1. Latin, spark.

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  1. = Old French scintille = Spanish centella = Portuguese scintilla, centelha = Italian scintilla, from Latin scintilla, a spark; cf. Greek σπινθήρ, a spark; perhaps akin to Anglo-Saxon scīnan, etc., shine: see shine. Hence ult. (from Latin scintilla) English scintillate, etc., stencil, tinsel.
 

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/sɪnˈtɪlə/
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