CEDILLA


Meaning of CEDILLA in English

sə̇ˈdilə, sēˈ- noun

( -s )

Etymology: Spanish, the obsolete letter ç (actually a medieval form of the letter z ), cedilla, from diminutive of ceda, zeda the letter z, from Late Latin zeta — more at zed

: a mark or diacritic, placed under a letter or symbol to indicate a sound different from that which the unmodified character bears in certain or all situations (as under c in French and in Portuguese before a, o, or u to indicate a pronunciation s rather than k)

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