Brewer's: Cedilla

The mark under a French sibilant c. This mark is the letter z, and the word is from the Italian zediglia (“zeticula,” a little z. (Greek, zeta; Spanish, ceda, with a diminutive.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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