cedillas

Noun

cedilla (plural cedillas or cedillae)

1. A diacritical mark ⟨¸⟩ placed beneath a letter to modify its pronunciation, used in the orthographies of many languages, such as under c in Catalan, French and Portuguese to indicate /s/ rather than /k/ (e.g. Catalan força, French menaçant, Portuguese almoço) and in other languages to modify the pronunciation of the letter c (e.g. from /d͡ʒ/ to /t͡ʃ/ in Turkish) or of other letters.
   • California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025

   Synonyms:

   cedille, cédille

2. (broadly) Synonym of cauda
   • The scribal discipline indicated by this sort of consistency extends to such details as the employment of different forms of cedilla appended to the letter e to distinguish between diphthong ae and diphthong oe.1992, Margaret Gibson, T.A Heslop, Richard Pfaff, The Eadwine Psalter : text, image and monastic culture in twelfth-century Canterbury, Pennsylvania State University Press, page 15

   Synonyms:

   cauda