cedilla

/si-dil-uh/US // sɪˈdɪl ə //UK // (sɪˈdɪlə) //

棉纱,棉絮,棉球,棉被

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a mark placed under a consonant letter, as under c in French, in Portuguese, and formerly in Spanish, to indicate that it is pronounced, under c and s in Turkish to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, and, or under t and s in Romanian to indicate that they are pronounced, respectively, and.
- : this mark used as a diacritic of arbitrary value in transliteration of words from non-Roman into Roman alphabetic characters.

He would speak the "g" in Nargett, and he, declined—after a remonstrance he declined—to pass Pagnell under the cedilla.
Cael in Ortelius and Homannus, the cedilla has been omitted in another part of this work.
It is pronounced somewhat like the c with the cedilla, ç, only more quickly and with greater force—ds or dz.
It was usual to write instead of the z—c with a cedilla, and this was probably the origin of the mistake.
Cedilla, se-dil′la, n. a mark placed under the letter c (thus ), esp.