cedilla

Noun. (orthography) In the spelling of Catalan, French, Portuguese and some other languages, a mark sometimes placed under the letter (term, c) to indicate that it is pronounced /s/ rather than /k/, as in French ''menaçant'' and Portuguese ''almoço'', and also used in various other languages to change the sounds of other letters.

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