cc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cc"

㏄ U+33C4, ㏄ SQUARE CC ← ㏃ [U+33C3] CJK Compatibility ㏅ → [U+33C5]

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siːˈsiː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Noun

cc (plural ccs or cc's)

2. Initialism of carbon copy.

   Alternative form: CC

   I had meant to cc you on this earlier. Please reply by next Thursday. Thanks.

4. Initialism of courtesy copy.

   Alternative form: CC

6. Initialism of closed caption or closed captioning.

   Alternative form: CC

8. Initialism of cubic centimeter.

   Alternative forms: cc., c.c.

   Synonyms: (preferred) cm³, mL

   This plastic syringe delivers one cc of medicine to the mouth of the animal. The medicine is peanut-flavored.

   • 2025 August, “The International System of Units (SI)”, in Bureau International des Poids et Mesures‎^[1], archived from the original on 17 September 2025, page 147:

     It is not permissible to use abbreviations for unit symbols or unit names, such as sec (for either s or second), sq. mm (for either mm² or square millimetre), cc (for either cm³ or cubic centimetre), or mps (for either m/s or metre per second).

Usage notes

• cc for "cubic centimeter" is language-dependent, and is not approved by the BIPM. It is also deprecated by several standards organizations in the health care profession. The symbols cm³ or mL should be used instead.

Translations

carbon copy

• Armenian: պճ (pč)
• French: cc (fr)
• Polish: k.o., DW (pl), aa (pl)

Noun

cc pl (plural only)

1. Abbreviation of chapters.

Verb

cc (third-person singular simple present cc's, present participle cc'ing, simple past and past participle cc'd or cc'ed or cc:d)

1. (Internet, transitive) Initialism of carbon copy (“to add an additional recipient to the CC line of an e-mail message”).

   Synonyms: carbon copy, copy

   • 2012, Doug Fine, quoting Colleen Brand, Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution‎^[2], Penguin, →ISBN:

     Please cc me so I stay on top of any situations that might come up & I can be sure we get you answers right away.

   • 2014, Alexandra Samuel, Work Smarter, Rule Your Email‎^[3], Harvard Business Review Press, →ISBN:

     For messages I'm cc'd on by people within my company, with the exception of a handful of senior execs (including my direct supervisor), whose cc's continue to go to my primary inbox.

2. (video games, transitive) Initialism of crowd control.

   Just cc him, bro.

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Interjection

cc

1. (text messaging, Internet) abbreviation of coucou

Ghomara

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• (Iɛraben) IPA^(key): [ʃ(ː)]

Verb

cc

1. (transitive) to eat

   Hypernym: fred

See also

• wakel (“eating”)

References

• Mourigh, Khalid (2015) A Grammar of Ghomara Berber (Thesis)‎^[4], Leiden

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ᵑǀ͡ʔ/

Letter

cc (upper case Cc)

1. A letter of the practical Hadza alphabet.

Tarifit

Alternative forms

• ecc

Etymology

From Proto-Berber *ăččəʔ, from Pre-Proto-Berber *ătyəʔ.

Compare Central Atlas Tamazight ⵞⵞ (čč, “to eat”), Tashelhit cc (“to eat”), Kabyle ečč (“to eat”), Northern Saharan Berber ecc (“to eat”), Ghadames ăšš (“to eat”), Zenaga ätʸši (“to eat”).

Verb

cc (Tifinagh spelling ⵛⵛ)

1. (transitive) to eat
2. (transitive) to consume
3. (transitive) to devour, to gorge
4. (transitive) to confiscate, to usurp
5. (transitive) to spend, to squander
6. (transitive) to prick (insect)
7. (transitive) to itch (part of body)
8. (transitive) to burn, to ravage (fire)
9. (transitive) to corrode
10. (transitive) to be hairy, to be shaggy

Conjugation

Conjugation of cc

aorist perfective negative perfective imperfective negative imperfective participle yeccen yeccen yeccin itetten itetten singular plural 1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person aorist m cceɣ tecced icc necc teccem ccen f tecc teccent ccent perfective m cciɣ teccid yecca necca teccim ccin f tecca teccint ccint negative perfective m cciɣ teccid yecci necci teccim ccin f tecci teccint ccint imperfective m itett ttetted itett ntett ttettem tetten f ttett ttettemt tettent negative imperfective m itett ttetted itett ntett ttettem tetten f ttett ttettemt tettent aorist imperative m cc ccem, ccet f ccent imperfective imperative m tett tettem, tettet f tettent

Derived terms

• amecciw (“glutton; gormandizer”)
• Causative: ssecc (“to feed”)
  • Verbal noun: asecci (“feeding; engagement meal”)
• icc (“excrement”)
• imci (“glutton; gormandizer”)
• imecci (“itchiness”)
• itci (“itchiness”)
• kiccu (“to be worm-eaten”)
  • akeccaw (“worm”)
• macca (“food; meal”)
• mrucc (“to quarrel”)
  • Verbal noun: amrucci (“dispute”)
• Passive: ttecc (“to be eaten”)
• smicciw (“to nibble”)
  • Verbal noun: asmicciw (“nibbling”)
• tameccit (“moss”)
• ticcit (“food; meal”)
• tuccut (“loot; itch”)

Tashelhit

Alternative forms

• icc

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Afroasiatic *taʔ-

Proto-Berber *ătyəʔ

Proto-Berber *ăččəʔ

Tashelhit cc

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăččəʔ (“to eat”), from earlier *ătyəʔ, from Proto-Afroasiatic *taʔ- (“to eat”). Cognate with Kabyle ečč (“to eat”), Zenaga ätʸši (“to eat”) and Soqotri [script needed] (teʔ, “to eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃː/

Verb

cc (intensive aorist ctta, preterite cci or cca, verbal noun amtcu or timtcit, Tifinagh spelling ⵛⵛ, Arabic spelling شّ)

1. to eat

Derived terms

• amccu (“ nourishment, food”)
• imtci (“ mite”)
• ttc (“to be eaten”)
• utci (“food, nourishment”)

References

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 3 m—š (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/3) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2168b