cedilla

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It is pronounced somewhat like the _c_ with the cedilla,

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  1. noun A mark ( ¸ ) placed beneath the letter c, as in the spelling of the French word garçon, to indicate that the letter is to be pronounced (s).

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  1. 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; see zeta.

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  1. = French cédille, from Spanish cedilla, now zedilla = Portuguese cedilha = Italian zediglia, the mark cedilla, the letter c with this mark, orig. cz, diminutive of Spanish ceda, now zeda, etc., from Latin zeta, Greek ζη̄τα, the Greek name of z: see z, zed, zeta. The character ç is thus a contraction of cz, a former mode of indicating that c had the sound of s in certain positions; thus, French leczon, now leçon (later English lesson).
 

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