cedilla

English

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Etymology

Spanish cedilla, from older zedilla (“little zed”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sə-dĭʹlə, IPA: /səˈdɪlə/, X-SAMPA: /s@"dIl@/

Noun

cedilla (plural cedillas)

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1. (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 French menaçant and Portuguese almoço, and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.

Translations

mark placed under the letter c

• Arabic: سديلا (ar) (sidiila) f
• Belarusian: цэдыллю (be) (cedýllju) 
• Catalan: trencat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟音符 (cmn), 软音符 (cmn) (ruǎnyīnfú)

• Czech: cedilla (cs) f
• Dutch: cedille
• Esperanto: subhoko (eo)
• Finnish: sedilji (fi)
• French: cédille (fr) f
• German: Cedille (de) f

• Ido: cedilio
• Italian: cediglia (it) f
• Japanese: セディーユ (ja) (sedīyu)
• Korean: 세디유 (ko) (sediyu)
• Manx: seddag (gv) f, straihleen (gv) m
• Portuguese: cedilha (pt) f
• Romanian: sedilă (ro) f
• Russian: седиль (ru) (sedílʹ) f 
• Spanish: cedilla (es) f
• Swedish: cedilj (sv) c

See also

• ç
• ogonek