From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishcedillace‧dil‧la /sɪˈdɪlə/ noun [countable] SLAa mark under the letter ‘c’ in French and some other languages, to show that it is an ‘s’ sound instead of a ‘k’ sound. The letter is written ‘ç’.Origin cedilla (1500-1600) Spanish “the letter ç (an old form of the letter z)”, from ceda “the letter z” from Late Latin zeta, from Greek
