: the diacritical mark ¸ placed under a letter (such as ç in French) to indicate an alteration or modification of its usual phonetic value (as in the French word façade)
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Examples include Spanish or French words like jalapeño (tilde), fiancé (acute), très (accent grave), Noël (diaeresis), façade (cedilla) or hôpital (circumflex).
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Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2022
In Latvian, it is written with a cedilla under the l, but is sometimes rendered Aliona, Aljona or Alyona.
—Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 8 July 2017
Marc Saltzman, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2022
In Latvian, it is written with a cedilla under the l, but is sometimes rendered Aliona, Aljona or Alyona.
—Ben Rothenberg, New York Times, 8 July 2017
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“Cedilla.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cedilla. Accessed 3 Jun. 2024.
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cedilla
noun
ce·dil·la
si-ˈdil-ə 
: a mark placed under the letter c (as ç) to show that it is to be pronounced like s
Etymology
from Spanish cedilla "mark under a c," originally a name for the obsolete letter ç, from ceda, zeda "the letter z," derived from Greek zēta "zeta"
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