Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A mark ( ¸ ) placed beneath the letter c, as in the spelling of the French word garçon, to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced (s).
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A mark placed under the letter c (thus, ç), especially in French and Portuguese, and formerly in Spanish, before a, o, or u, to indicate that it is to be sounded like
s , and not likek , as it usually is before those vowels.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A mark placed under the letter
c [thus, ç], to show that it is to be sounded likes , as infaçade .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun orthography In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark sometimes placed under the letter
c to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in Frenchmenaçant and Portuguesealmoço , and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cedilla is also used in portuguese by the way.
Spanish Keyboard 2005
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To create a cedilla below the letter “C” or “c”, press Ctrl +, and type upper - or lower-case “c”.
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To create a cedilla below the letter “C” or “c”, press Ctrl +, and type upper - or lower-case “c”.
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If this is true, and if being Contador's "fingerbang assistant" does actually require being the cedilla on his letter "C," then Contador's victory salute has already reached a level of complexity and obscenity never before seen in the professional peloton.
The Schlock of the New: Dirty Salutes, Bold Claims, and Loud Prints BikeSnobNYC 2009
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In 1979, however, two things happened almost simultaneously – a Polish Pope was elected: John Paul II, whose Polish family name included the barred l – Wojtyła, and the Solidarity movement was constantly in the news, led by a man whose name not only included a barred l, but also an ogonek reverse cedilla under a vowel letter, indicating that it is a nasalised vowel: Lech Wałęsa.
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Using the tilde on español but not the cedilla on français is sloppy.
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July 25, 2008 at 10:12 am put a cedilla over the C and it should still do the job, yes?
iz u done vacooming now?? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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July 25, 2008 at 11:50 am poetc teh c wiv a cedilla under – nawt ober?
iz u done vacooming now?? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I note that despite obeying a minimalist formula you nonetheless have time for that all important cedilla.
Charlie Wilson's War Fathorse 2008
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Using the tilde on español but not the cedilla on français is sloppy.
inkhorn commented on the word cedilla
Cedilla Accent: façade
December 19, 2006
johnmperry commented on the word cedilla
its name derives from being a miniature Z (zed in British English) - used to change the pronunciation of the letter C from hard to soft.
August 17, 2008
fbharjo commented on the word cedilla
from seventh letter of the Phoenician alphabet - zen
April 14, 2012