In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark placed under the letter c immediately preceding a, o, or u 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
A cedilla is a symbol that is written under the letter `c' in French, Portuguese, and some other languages to show that you pronounce it like a letter `s' rather than like a letter `k'. It is written ç. a mark put 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'. (from ceda from zeta, from )
The mark under a French sibilant c This mark is the letter z, and the word is from the Italian zediglia (zeticula, a little z (Greek, zeta; Spanish, ceda, with a diminutive )
In the spelling of Catalan, French and Portuguese and some other languages, a mark placed under the letter c immediately preceding a, o, or u 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
An accent mark (¸), originally a subscripted Z, placed under the letter C, hence Ç It was used in Spanish to indicate that the letter had the sound of a Spanish Z where that of K was expected It is still used in French and Portuguese to indicate that a C has an Ssound before vowels It is also used in languages such as Albanian, Catalan and modern Turkish (cf accents)
A mark originally placed beneath the letter c in French, Portuguese, and Spanish to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced as an s, as in faテァade Obsolete Spanish diminutive of ceda, the letter z
A mark originally placed beneath the letter c in French, Portuguese, and Spanish to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced as an s, as in façade Obsolete Spanish diminutive of ceda, the letter z