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Cedilla

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Noun

1. cedilla

a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cedilla

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noun
a character ( ¸ ) placed underneath a c before a, o, or u, esp in French, Portuguese, or Catalan, denoting that it is to be pronounced (s), not (k). The same character is used in the scripts of other languages, as in Turkish under s

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Cedilla

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noun
a hooklike mark put under c, as in some French words, to indicate that it is to be sounded as the voiceless palatal fricative (s), as in façade

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Cedilla

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n.
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).

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