cedilla

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish cedilla (“little zed”), c. 1600. In Spanish a small z was formerly written after or below the letter c to indicate the soft pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sə-dĭʹlə, IPA^(key): /səˈdɪlə/

Noun

cedilla (plural cedillas)

¸ Ç ç

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.

Usage notes

Sometimes retained in words which have been adopted into English, specifically from French, such as facade/façade.

Translations

mark placed under the letter c

• Arabic: سِدِيلَا f (sidīlā)
• Belarusian: цэды́ллю (cedýllju)
• Catalan: trencat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軟音符／软音符 (zh), 软音符 (zh) (ruǎnyīnfú)

• Czech: cedilla f
• Dutch: cedille (nl)
• Esperanto: subhoko
• Finnish: sedilji (fi)
• French: cédille (fr) f
• German: Cedille (de) f
• Hungarian: cédille, cedilla, (somewhat informal) bal farok, (informal) farkinca, (informal) akasztó (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ido: cedilio (io)
• Irish: straithín m
• Italian: cediglia (it) f
• Japanese: セディーユ (sedīyu)
• Korean: 세디유 (sediyu)
• Manx: seddag f, straihleen m
• Portuguese: cedilha (pt) f
• Romanian: sedilă (ro) f
• Russian: седи́ль (ru) f (sedílʹ)
• Spanish: cedilla (es) f
• Swedish: cedilj (sv) c

See also

• ç
• ogonek

Anagrams

• cleidal

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Spanish

Etymology

Diminutive of (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) (Spanish zeta), from ceda + -illa.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θeˈdiʝa/ [θeˈð̞i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Spain) /θeˈdiʝa/ [θeˈð̞i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (rural northern Spain) /θeˈdiʎa/ [θeˈð̞i.ʎa]

 

• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /seˈdiʝa/ [seˈð̞i.ʝa]

• IPA^(key): (most of Latin America) /seˈdiʝa/ [seˈð̞i.ʝa]
• IPA^(key): (Andes Mountains) /seˈdiʎa/ [seˈð̞i.ʎa]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /seˈdiʃa/ [seˈð̞i.ʃa]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /seˈdiʒa/ [seˈð̞i.ʒa]

Noun

cedilla f (plural cedillas)

1. Name of the letter ç.
2. (orthography) cedilla

Descendants

• English: cedilla
• French: cédille
• Portuguese: cedilha