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cedilla

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cedilla /sɪˈdɪlə/ noun
plural cedillas
cedilla
/sɪˈdɪlə/
noun
plural cedillas
Learner's definition of CEDILLA
[count]
: a mark ¸ placed under the letter c (as in façade) to show that it is pronounced like s and not k下加符,下加变音符(¸,c字母下面加的符号,表示发音像s而不像k)
◊ In English, the cedilla is mostly used in words that come from French.在英语中,下加符大多用于源自法语的单词。

cedilla

noun

ce·​dil·​la si-ˈdi-lə How to pronounce cedilla (audio)
: the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (such as ç in French) to indicate an alteration or modification of its usual phonetic value (as in the French word façade)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Examples include Spanish or French words like jalapeño (tilde), fiancé (acute), très (accent grave), Noël (diaeresis), façade (cedilla) or hôpital (circumflex). Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2022 In Latvian, it is written with a cedilla under the l, but is sometimes rendered Aliona, Aljona or Alyona. Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 8 July 2017

Word History

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

First Known Use

1599, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cedilla was in 1599

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