Cedilla Definition
sĭ-dĭlə
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.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Cedilla
Noun
Singular:
cedilla
Plural:
cedillasOrigin of Cedilla
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Obsolete Spanish diminutive of ceda the letter z (so called because a small z was formerly written after a c, and later below it, to indicate that the normal hard c was to be pronounced as a sibilant, like s or z) from Late Latin zēta zeta from Greek zeta
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Spanish cedilla, from older zedilla (“little zed”)
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