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cedilla|sɪˈdɪlə|
[a. Sp. cedilla = It. zediglia, on L. type *zēticula, dim. of zēta the letter z; see quot. 1878.]
a. A mark (¸) derived from the letter z, written, especially in French and Portuguese (formerly also in Spanish) words, under c, to show that it has the ‘soft’ sound of the letter in positions in which the ‘hard’ sound would be normal, as before a, o, u. An earlier form was cerilla.
Chambers 1753 takes cedilla as the letter c with the subscript mark; printers still sometimes use it in this sense.
1599Minsheu Span. Gram. 6 Marked with a dash vnder it thus, ç, called ç Cerilla, or ç Cedilla, is proper to the Arabique tongue, from whence it was first taken. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Cedilla..denotes a sort of small c, to the bottom of which is affixed a kind of virgula, as ç... The cedilla is called by some of our printers a ceceril. 1878Kitchin tr. Brachet's Fr. Dict. s.v., The cedilla was a z, placed first by the side of, afterwards underneath the letter affected.
b. Used in modern Turkish to indicate that a c is sounded |tʃ| and an s |ʃ|.
1929Nat. Geogr. Mag. Jan. 102/1 On the street cars the old bilingual signs in Arabic-script Turkish and Latin-lettered French have given way to clearer signs in New Turkish, which is equally easy for the foreigner to read, even if the ‘d’ and ‘t’ and the ‘b’ and ‘p’ seem to be juggled somewhat and cedilla and umlaut markings added. 1933Slavonic & E. European Rev. XII. 712 C with the cedilla..is in common use in French (also in Portuguese and Turkish). 1978Hart's Rules for Compositors (ed. 38) 134 Turkish. Note the accented letters Ç ç Ş ş (with cedilla) g;̆ ğ (with round accent). |