Cousin of the tilde and umlaut

• Mark suggesting a 'c' should be pronounced an 's'
• Every garçon has one
• Façade component
• Mark under a French c
• Pronunciation aid
• Diacritical mark under a 'c'
• Facade feature
• Janet's fiancГ© in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Spanish cedilla , zedilla , literally "little z," from a Latin-like diminutive of Greek zeta "the letter 'z'." The mark (formerly also used in Spanish) was derived from that letter and indicates a "soft" sound in letters in positions where ...