| 单词 | cedilla |
| 释义 | cedilla /si dil"euh/, n. 1. a mark (similar to a comma) placed under a consonant letter, as under c in French, in Portuguese, and formerly in Spanish, to indicate that it is pronounced /s/, under c and s in Turkish to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, /ch/ and /sh/, or under t and s in Romanian to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, /ts/ and /sh/. 2. this mark used as a diacritic of arbitrary value in transliteration of words from non-Roman into Roman alphabetic characters. [1590-1600; < Sp. var. sp. of zedilla little z, equiv. to zed(a) ZED + -illa dim. suffix; the mark was so called from its original form] |
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