"cedilla" meaning in Spanish

See cedilla in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /θeˈdiʝa/, [θeˈð̞i.ʝa], /θeˈdiʝa/, [θeˈð̞i.ʝa], /θeˈdiʎa/, [θeˈð̞i.ʎa], /seˈdiʝa/, [seˈð̞i.ʝa], /seˈdiʝa/, [seˈð̞i.ʝa], /seˈdiʎa/, [seˈð̞i.ʎa], /seˈdiʃa/, [seˈð̞i.ʃa], /seˈdiʃa/, [seˈð̞i.ʃa], /seˈdiʒa/, [seˈð̞i.ʒa] Forms: cedillas [plural]
Rhymes: -iʝa, -iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America), -iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines), -iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs), -iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) Etymology: From Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix); cognate with modern Spanish zeta. Etymology templates: {{af|es|ceda|-illa|lang1=osp|pos2=diminutive suffix|t1=letter Z}} Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix), {{cog|es|zeta}} Spanish zeta Head templates: {{es-noun|f}} cedilla f (plural cedillas)
  1. name of the letter ç Tags: alt-of, feminine, letter, name Alternative form of: ç
    Sense id: en-cedilla-es-noun-N1t23oI1
  2. (orthography) cedilla Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-cedilla-es-noun-OicBEgoz Categories (other): Orthography, Spanish entries with incorrect language header, Spanish terms suffixed with -illa, Diacritical marks Disambiguation of Spanish entries with incorrect language header: 8 92 Disambiguation of Spanish terms suffixed with -illa: 11 89 Disambiguation of Diacritical marks: 31 69 Topics: communications, journalism, literature, media, orthography, publishing, writing

Inflected forms

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cedilla"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "cédille"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "sedilji"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Cedille"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cédille"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cediglia"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cedilha"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sedilă"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ceda",
        "3": "-illa",
        "lang1": "osp",
        "pos2": "diminutive suffix",
        "t1": "letter Z"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "zeta"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish zeta",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix); cognate with modern Spanish zeta.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cedillas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "cedilla f (plural cedillas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ce‧di‧lla"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ce‧di‧lla"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ç"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the letter ç"
      ],
      "id": "en-cedilla-es-noun-N1t23oI1",
      "links": [
        [
          "ç",
          "ç#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "feminine",
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Orthography",
          "orig": "es:Orthography",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "8 92",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "11 89",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Spanish terms suffixed with -illa",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "es",
          "name": "Diacritical marks",
          "orig": "es:Diacritical marks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cedilla"
      ],
      "id": "en-cedilla-es-noun-OicBEgoz",
      "links": [
        [
          "orthography",
          "orthography"
        ],
        [
          "cedilla",
          "cedilla#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(orthography) cedilla"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "orthography",
        "publishing",
        "writing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʎa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʎa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʎa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʎa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʃa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʃa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʒa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʒa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cedilla"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʃa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʃa/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʎa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʎa/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʒa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʒa/3 syllables",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʝa",
    "Rhymes:Spanish/iʝa/3 syllables",
    "Spanish 3-syllable words",
    "Spanish countable nouns",
    "Spanish entries with incorrect language header",
    "Spanish feminine nouns",
    "Spanish lemmas",
    "Spanish nouns",
    "Spanish terms derived from Old Spanish",
    "Spanish terms suffixed with -illa",
    "Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "es:Diacritical marks"
  ],
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    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cedilla"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "English",
          "lang_code": "en",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "cédille"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "lang_code": "fi",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "sedilji"
        },
        {
          "lang": "German",
          "lang_code": "de",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "Cedille"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cédille"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cediglia"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "cedilha"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "sedilă"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "ceda",
        "3": "-illa",
        "lang1": "osp",
        "pos2": "diminutive suffix",
        "t1": "letter Z"
      },
      "expansion": "Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "es",
        "2": "zeta"
      },
      "expansion": "Spanish zeta",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Spanish ceda (“letter Z”) + -illa (diminutive suffix); cognate with modern Spanish zeta.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cedillas",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "cedilla f (plural cedillas)",
      "name": "es-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ce‧di‧lla"
  ],
  "hyphenations": [
    {
      "parts": [
        "ce‧di‧lla"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Spanish",
  "lang_code": "es",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "ç"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "name of the letter ç"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ç",
          "ç#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "feminine",
        "letter",
        "name"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "es:Orthography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "cedilla"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "orthography",
          "orthography"
        ],
        [
          "cedilla",
          "cedilla#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(orthography) cedilla"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "communications",
        "journalism",
        "literature",
        "media",
        "orthography",
        "publishing",
        "writing"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/θeˈdiʎa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[θeˈð̞i.ʎa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʝa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʝa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʎa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʎa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʃa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʃa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʃa]"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/seˈdiʒa/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[seˈð̞i.ʒa]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʝa"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʝa (most of Spain and Latin America)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʎa (rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʃa (Buenos Aires and environs)"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iʒa (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cedilla"
}

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