cedilla

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cedilla - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  cedilla \ce*dil"la\ (s[-e]*d[i^]l"l[.a]), n. [Sp. cedilla, cf.
     F. c['e]dille; dim. of zeta, the Gr. name of the letter z,
     because this letter was formerly written after the c, to give
     it the sound of s.]
     A mark placed under the letter c [thus, [,c]], to show that
     it is to be sounded like s, as in fa[,c]ade.
     [1913 Webster]

cedilla - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cedilla
      n 1: a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to
           indicate that it is pronounced as an s