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    cedilla

    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
    Related topics: Letters & punctuation
    ce·dil·la /sɪˈdɪlə/ noun [countable]  SLAa mark under the letter ‘c’ in French and some other languages, to show that it is an ‘s’ sound instead of a ‘k’ sound. The letter is written ‘ç’. 软音符，下加变音符〔法语和其他语言中加在字母c下面的符号，表示应读成/s/而不是/k/。字母写成ç〕    Origin cedilla (1500-1600) Spanish “the letter ç (an old form of the letter z)”, from ceda “the letter z” from Late Latin zeta, from Greek
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    cedilla
    ce‧dil‧la /sɪˈdɪlə/ noun [countable]
     Date: 1500-1600
     Language: Spanish
     Origin: 'the letter ç (an old form of the letter z)', from ceda 'the letter z' from Late Latin zeta, from Greek
    a mark under the letter ‘c’ in French and some other languages, to show that it is an ‘s’ sound instead of a ‘k’ sound. The letter is written ‘ç’.


    ce·dillaBrE /sɪˈdɪlə/ 🔊NAmE /sɪˈdɪlə/ 🔊 nounthe mark placed under the letter c in French, Portuguese, etc. to show that it is pronounced like an s rather than a k, as in français; a similar mark under s in Turkish and some other languages 下加符，下加变音符（法语、葡萄牙语等 c 字母下面加的符号，表示发音像 s 而不像 k，如 français；土耳其语和其他一些语言中 s 字母下有类似的符号）