Wiktionary

C

See also: c and Appendix:Variations of "c"

C U+0043, C
LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
← B
[U+0042] 		Basic Latin D →
[U+0044]
Character variations

Ⅽ U+216D, Ⅽ
ROMAN NUMERAL ONE HUNDRED
← Ⅼ
[U+216C] 		Number Forms Ⅾ →
[U+216E]
Ｃ U+FF23, Ｃ
FULLWIDTH LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
← Ｂ
[U+FF22] 		Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms Ｄ →
[U+FF24]
Languages (54)
Translingual • English
Afrikaans • Albanian • Angami • Azerbaijani • Basque • Catalan • Central Franconian • Central Mazahua • Chinese • Czech • Dutch • Elfdalian • Esperanto • Estonian • Finnish • French • German • Heiltsuk • Hungarian • Ido • Indonesian • Irish • Italian • Kankanaey • Kashubian • Kwak'wala • Latin • Latvian • Lower Sorbian • Malay • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nupe • Old English • Polish • Portuguese • Romani • Romanian • Saanich • Scottish Gaelic • Silesian • Skolt Sami • Slovene • Somali • Spanish • Swedish • Tagalog • Tashelhit • Turkish • Vietnamese • Welsh • Zulu
Page categories

Translingual

edit

Etymology 1

edit
 
Etruscan 𐌂 (C), the source for Latin C

From the Etruscan letter 𐌂 (c, ce), from the Ancient Greek letter Γ (G, gamma), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤂 (g, giml), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓌙.

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

See also

edit

Etymology 2

edit

A standardization of Ɔ and C because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of Latin centum (“hundred”), from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternative form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling Ж (a superimposed X and I), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

Alternative forms

edit

Numeral

edit

C (upper case Roman numeral, lower case c)

  1. Roman numeral hundred (100)
  2. the hundredth (100th)
Usage notes
edit
  • With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as C̅, it represents one hundred thousand.
Coordinate terms
edit
Derived terms
edit
See also
edit
  • Lesser Roman numeral symbol: L (“50”)
  • Greater Roman numeral symbol: D (“500”)
  • Roman numerals

Etymology 3

edit
  • (element symbol, carbon): abbreviation
  • (metrology, coulomb): abbreviation
  • (computing, hexadecimal 12): From its position as the twelfth element of the series {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, F}

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (biochemistry) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for cysteine
  2. (clothing) Bra cup size.
  3. (computing, hexadecimal) The digit for 12.
    0x0000000C
  4. (chemistry) Chemical symbol for carbon.
  5. (finance) Long-term bond credit rating by Moody's Investors Service, indicating that a bond is in default, with little prospect of debt recovery.
  6. (finance) Long-term bond credit rating by Fitch Ratings, indicating that a bond is low grade and on the verge of default.
  7. (genetics) IUPAC 1-letter abbreviation for any cytosine
  8. (linguistics) A wildcard for a consonant
  9. (mathematics) differentiable class
    C1 functions are differentiable once, and C2 functions are twice differentiable
  10. (mathematics) The constant of integration.
     
  11. (metrology) Symbol for coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.
  12. (metrology) Symbol for degrees Celsius.
    Alternative form: °C
    • 2019 December 2, Fiona Harvey, “Climate crisis: what is COP and can it save the world?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[2] (in English), London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-02:
      Current commitments made by national governments under the Paris agreement fall far short of what is required – taken together, they would still condemn the world to an estimated temperature rise of more than 3C by the end of the century.
    • 2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7 (in English), page 3:
      I’ve noticed my attitude just hasn’t been the vibe lately. Yesterday I totally lost it at a restaurant because my pasta was only 18 C, which is two degrees below normal room temperature—like two degrees! How could they?
  13. (physics) capacitance
  14. (Voice Quality Symbols) creak (vocal fry)
edit
  • Letter styles
  •  
    Capital and lowercase versions of C, in normal and italic type
  •  
    Uppercase and lowercase C in Fraktur

See also

edit

Other representations of C:

English

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c, plural Cs or C's)

  1. The third letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D, in the dust with his great hoof […]
See also
edit

Number

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The ordinal number third, derived from this letter of the English alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

Symbol

edit

C

  1. A standard size of dry cell battery between A and D.

Noun

edit

C (plural Cs)

  1. (US, slang) One hundred dollars; a c-note.[1]
    • 1935, Henry Louis Mencken, George Jean Nathan, The American Mercury, volume 35, page 227:
      I keep on fairbanking the chump until he is between a poop and a sweat. The score is half a C and he's broke.
  2. (music) The first note in the C chromatic and major scales.
    Hyponyms: high C, middle C
  4. (education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B.
    • 2021 June 18, Sam Roberts, “Saul B. Cohen, Who Helped Raise CUNY Standards, Dies at 95”, in The New York Times‎[3], archived from the original on 18 June 2021‎[4]:
      Dr. Cohen himself got a C in his first formal course in geography, during a summer program at Harvard after he graduated from high school. But he went on to earn three degrees and become the executive director of the Association of American Geographers and a leading expert in political and human geography — a specialty field that explores the impact of natural and arbitrary borders, territory, resources and populations on a nation’s cultural, social and economic development, as well as its relations with other countries.
  5. (Unicode) Canonical Decomposition, followed by Canonical Composition
    (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  6. (slang) Cocaine.[2]
    • 1945, William Burroughs, letter, 24 Jul 1945:
      Where did you secure the C? My own supply is utterly depleted.
  7. (slang, vulgar) Cunt.[3]
    • 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
      He turned me on my stomach & slowly gently put his cock in my ass. I was so happy! But I was having a hard time completely relaxing & so he withdrew & went in my C.
  8. Abbreviation of consonant.
  9. (UK politics, in election results) Abbreviation of Conservative.
  10. Abbreviation of century.
    Alternative forms: C., c.
  11. (basketball) Abbreviation of center.
    Coordinate terms: PG, SG, SF, PF
Derived terms
edit
edit

Etymology 2

edit

The programming language is so named because it followed on from an earlier language called B.

Proper noun

edit

C

  2. (programming) A particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived.
    • 1995, Gary Wolf, "The Curse of Xanadu", Wired Magazine
      The PDP-11, from the Digital Equipment Corporation, was a coveted machine. It was the original computer to run a new programming language called C, which was on its way to becoming the hackers' standard. Gregory, as it happened, didn't have any spare PDP-11s at his disposal. But the repairman took the opportunity to question some of Nelson's blithe predictions in Computer Lib, and Nelson, in response, unleashed his glib and bitter tirade against the conservative ignoramuses in the computer business.
  3. (British) Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).
  4. (stock ticker symbol) Symbol for the company Citigroup Inc on the NYSE
Hyponyms
edit

(programming language): Objective-C

Derived terms
edit
edit
Translations
edit

Etymology 3

edit

Abbreviations.

Noun

edit

C

  1. (entomology) Abbreviation of costa.

Prefix

edit

C

  1. (Stenoscript) the sequence circ or its sound
  2. (Stenoscript) the prefix circum-

Verb

edit

C

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of see.
    Alternative form: c
    • 2008 January–February, Chris Rodell, “Small talk, big results”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 80:
      Sure, we may use cellphones and e-mail hundreds of times a week, but we say very little. […] Most of our talk, even in privileged IM circles, is no deeper than the words we exchange with the pizza guy. […] U C wt I mn?

Etymology 4

edit
 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Uncertain. Either from Hainanese 鮮 / 鲜 (si²³, “fresh”), short for 鮮奶 (“fresh milk”), or an abbreviation of Carnation, a canned milk brand, and historically, one of the most widespread forms of evaporated milk in Singapore.[4]

Pronunciation

edit

Adjective

edit

C (not comparable)

  1. (Singapore, colloquial, used as a modifier after kopi (“coffee”) or teh (“tea”)) With sugar and evaporated milk added.
edit

References

edit
  1. ^ “C n.2”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  2. ^ “C n.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  3. ^ “C n.1”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  4. ^ Jock Onn Wong (2011 April 20) “Social hierarchy in the “speech culture” of Singapore”, in Goddard, C., editor, Ethnopragmatics: Understanding Discourse in Cultural Context, De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 109

Afrikaans

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /sɪə/

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Afrikaans alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Noun

edit

C (plural C's, diminutive C'tjie)

  1. C

Albanian

edit

Pronunciation

edit

IPA(key): /t͡s/

Letter

edit

C (upper case C, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Albanian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Angami

edit

Letter

edit

C

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Angami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Azerbaijani

edit

Letter

edit

C upper case (lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Azerbaijani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Basque

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • IPA(key): (phoneme) /k/, /s̻/

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Basque alphabet, called ze and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit
  • Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

See also

edit

Further reading

edit
  • “C”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

Catalan

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Catalan alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Central Franconian

edit

Letter

edit

C

  1. A letter in the German-based alphabet of Central Franconian.
  2. A letter in the Dutch-based alphabet of Central Franconian.

Usage notes

edit
  • In the German-based spelling, c is generally used only in ck (doubled k), ch for /ɕ/, /x/ (rarely /k/), and sch for /ʃ/.
  • In the Dutch-based spelling, c is used in ch and sometimes after the Dutch cognate for /k/ or /s/. The digraph sj is used for /ʃ/.

Central Mazahua

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. A letter of the Mazahua alphabet.

Chinese

edit
simp. and trad.
 C

Etymology 1

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

C

  1. (electronics) USB-C
    C口  ―  sēikǒu  ―  USB-C port

Etymology 2

edit

Pronunciation 1

edit
Letter
edit

C

  1. The third letter of the Latin alphabet.

Pronunciation 2

edit
Letter
edit

C

  1. The third letter used in Pinyin.
Usage notes
edit
  • 《汉语拼音方案》 defines a standard pronunciation for each letter. However, these pronunciations are rarely used in education; another pronunciation is commonly used instead.
  • The pronunciation above are only used while referring to letters in Pinyin. They are not used in other context (such as English).

Czech

edit

Letter

edit

C

  1. The fourth letter of the Czech alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Dutch

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /s/, /k/, /x/, /ks/, /ʃ/, ...
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /seː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Dutch alphabet, called cee and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Elfdalian

edit

Alternative forms

edit
  • ᛋ, C (Dalecarlian runes)

Letter

edit

C (upper case C, lower case c)

  1. (obsolete, non-native words) The letter of the Elfdalian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Esperanto

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Esperanto alphabet, called co and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Estonian

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (letter name, tsee): IPA(key): /ˈtseː/, [ˈtseː]
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ˈts/, [ˈts], /ˈk/, [ˈkˑ], /ˈs/, [ˈs] (depending on the source language)

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Estonian alphabet, called tsee and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit
  • Used only in foreign words.

See also

edit

Finnish

edit

Etymology

edit

The Finnish orthography using the Latin script was based on those of Swedish, German and Latin, and was first used in the mid-16th century. No earlier script is known. See the Wikipedia article on Finnish for more information, and C for information on the development of the glyph itself.

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Finnish alphabet, called see and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit
  • Used only in loanwords. In more established loanwords replaced with k or s.

Derived terms

edit
compounds

See also

edit

Noun

edit

C

  1. Abbreviation of cum laude approbatur.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of c (“C (musical note)”)

French

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the French alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

German

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the German alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

Heiltsuk

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. A letter of the Heiltsuk alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Hungarian

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fourth letter of the Hungarian alphabet, called cé and written in the Latin script.

Declension

edit
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative C C-k
accusative C-t C-ket
dative C-nek C-knek
instrumental C-vel C-kkel
causal-final C-ért C-kért
translative C-vé C-kké
terminative C-ig C-kig
essive-formal C-ként C-kként
essive-modal — —
inessive C-ben C-kben
superessive C-n C-ken
adessive C-nél C-knél
illative C-be C-kbe
sublative C-re C-kre
allative C-hez C-khez
elative C-ből C-kből
delative C-ről C-kről
ablative C-től C-ktől
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		C-é C-ké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		C-éi C-kéi
Possessive forms of C
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. C-m C-im
2nd person sing. C-d C-id
3rd person sing. C-je C-i
1st person plural C-nk C-ink
2nd person plural C-tek C-itek
3rd person plural C-jük C-ik

Derived terms

edit

See also

edit

Ido

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Ido alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Indonesian

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /t͡ʃe/ (standard)
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /se/ (variant, Dutch-influenced)
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /tʃ/

Etymology 1

edit

From the Latin letter C, from the Etruscan letter 𐌂 (c, ce), from the Ancient Greek letter Γ (G, gamma), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤂 (g, giml), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓌙.

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Indonesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
edit

Noun

edit

C (plural C-C)

  1. C:
    1. (music) the first note in the C chromatic and major scales
    3. (education) An academic grade better than a D and worse than a B

Etymology 2

edit

Numeral

edit

C (upper case Roman numeral, lower case c)

  1. Roman numeral hundred (100)
  2. the hundredth (100th)

Etymology 3

edit

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (chemical symbol) C: Initialism of karbon.

Further reading

edit

Irish

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Irish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Italian

edit
 
Italian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia it

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C f or m (invariable, upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Italian alphabet, called ci and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Kankanaey

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Tagalog C. Letter pronunciation is influenced by English C.

Pronunciation

edit
  • (letter) IPA(key): /si/ [si̞]
    • Rhymes: -i
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /k/ [k̠̚]

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Kankanaey alphabet, called si and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Kashubian

edit

Etymology

edit

The Kashubian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Kashubian alphabet article on Wikipedia for more, and C for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fifth letter of the Kashubian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Kwak'wala

edit

Alternative forms

edit
  • ⟨Ts⟩ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwak'wala)

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. (Liqʼwala dialect) A letter of the Kwak'wala alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Latin

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Latin alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Symbol

edit

C

  1. A digit 100 (centum) in the decimal Roman numeral system. It is iterated for multiples.

Derived terms

edit

References

edit
  • C in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "C", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • C in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Latvian

edit
 
Latvian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lv

Etymology

edit

Proposed in 1908 as part of the new Latvian spelling by the scientific commission headed by K. Mīlenbahs, which was accepted and began to be taught in schools in 1909. Prior to that, Latvian had been written in German Fraktur, and sporadically in Cyrillic.

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit
 
C

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fourth letter of the Latvian alphabet, called cē and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Lower Sorbian

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Lower Sorbian alphabet, called cej and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Malay

edit
 
Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C

  1. The third letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Norwegian Bokmål

edit
 
Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb
 
The letter C, c from the Norwegian alphabet, in two different fonts.

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology 1

edit

From Latin C, from Etruscan Etruscan 𐌂 (c), from Ancient Greek Γ (G, gamma), from Phoenician 𐤂 (g, giml).

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lowercase c)

  1. The third letter of the Norwegian Bokmål alphabet, written in the Latin script.
See also
edit

Noun

edit

C m (definite singular C-en, indefinite plural C-er, definite plural C-ene)

  1. the letter c, the third letter of the Norwegian alphabet
  2. indicates the third entry in a list, order or rank
    øl i klasse C ― beer with 2.75–3.75 volume percent alcohol
    førerkort klasse C ― driver's license for a truck
    førerkort klasse C1 ― driver's license for a light truck
    hepatitt C ― hepatitis C
    • 1857, Henrik Wergeland, Samlede Skrifter VIII, page 515:
      [jeg har] allerede sagt A. Traditionen vil nok lægge B. og C. til
      [I have] already said A. Tradition will probably add B. and C. to
    • 1939, Knut Hamsun, Artikler, page 100:
      historie er, hvad A mener til forskel fra B, og hvad C igen mener til forskel fra A og B
      history is what A means as a difference from B, and what C in turn means as a difference from A and B
  3. (education) the third highest grade in a school or university using the A-F scale
    å få C til eksamen
    to get a C on your exam
  4. (music) C, c-note (the first note in the C chromatic and major scales; the lowest note of an instrument, written below the staff and the D note)
    den høye C ― high C
    • 1997, Tove Nilsen, G for Georg, page 42:
      så gal at man virkelig tror at svaler er g-nøkler og bass-nøkler og a’er og c’er som svever rundt hverandre og lager konsert i himmelen
      so crazy that you really think swallows are g-keys and bass-keys and a's and c's floating around each other and making a concert in the sky
    • 1939, Knut Hamsun, Artikler, page 100:
      [de] larmet ikke og gik ikke og tok det høie C
      [they] did not make noise and did not go and did the high C
    • 1999, Børre Qvamme, Opera, operette og ballett gjennom tidene, page 70:
      Duprez vakte sensasjon ved sine ut de poitrine, høy c tatt som brysttone
      Duprez aroused sensation by his out de poitrine, high c taken as chest tone
    • 2000, Pål Gerhard Olsen, Fredstid:
      han gjør stolen hennes tobent så hun når den høye c av forskrekkelse
      he makes her chair two-legged so she reaches the high c out of fright
  5. C (Roman numeral hundred; 100)
Usage notes
edit
  • Only used in words of foreign origin, usually English. Even rare in loanwords, as this letter does not represent a sound of its own. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s or k.
  • Still kept in many Christian names, therefore Caroline and Karoline are both acceptable spellings.
  • In most of the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19th centuries is spelled as ᛎ.

Etymology 2

edit

Abbreviation of celsius, named after Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701–1744).

Pronunciation

edit

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (metrology) symbol for degrees Celsius

Etymology 3

edit

Abbreviation of coulomb, named after French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

Pronunciation

edit

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (metrology) Symbol for coulomb, an SI unit of electric charge.

Etymology 4

edit

Named C because it followed on from an earlier programming language called B.

Pronunciation

edit

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (programming) C (a particular high-level programming language from which many others are derived)

Etymology 5

edit

Abbreviation of karbon, from French carbone (“carbon”), from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”).

Pronunciation

edit

Symbol

edit

C

  1. (chemistry) carbon (the chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6)
    • 1943, (Carl Fred. Holmboe, Michael Faraday, pages 165–166:
      kullstoffet C (carbo) er tetravalent og danner metan CH4 med fire vannstoffatomer
      carbon C (carbo) is tetravalent and forms methane CH4 with four hydrogen atoms

References

edit

Anagrams

edit

Norwegian Nynorsk

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case C, lower case c)

  1. the third letter of the Norwegian alphabet

Usage notes

edit
  • Only used in words of foreign origin, usually English. Even rare in loanwords, as this letter does not represent a sound of its own. Also used in old inscriptions and texts instead of s or k.
  • Still kept in many Christian names, therefore Caroline and Karoline are both acceptable spellings.
  • In most of the neo-runic inscriptions from 17-19th centuries is spelled as ᛎ. [1] [2]

References

edit
  1. ^ K. Jonas Nordby (2001) Etterreformatoriske runeinnskrifter i Norge: Opphav og tradisjon‎[1], page 85
  2. ^ James E. Knirk (1997) Nyare tids runeinnskrifter frå Vindal Negard

Nupe

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Nupe alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Old English

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /k/, /tʃ/

Letter

edit

C

  1. A letter of the Old English alphabet representing the phonemes /k/ and /tʃ/

Numeral

edit

C

  1. the numeral 100 (hundred)
    • late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
      ⁊ R̄omana wæs ān C ⁊ ān M ofslaġen, ⁊ heora sċipa IX ādruncen.
      And 1,100 of the Romans were slain, and nine of their ships were sunk.

Polish

edit

Etymology

edit

The Polish orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the history of Polish orthography article on Wikipedia for more, and C for development of the glyph itself.

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fourth letter of the Polish alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Portuguese

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Portuguese alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Romani

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Romani alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

References

edit
  • Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “C, c”, in ニューエクスプレス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, →ISBN, page 13

Romanian

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fifth letter of the Romanian alphabet, called ce or cî and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit

When followed by an i or e, this letter represents the phoneme /tʃ/, as in cel (/tʃel/) and citesc (/tʃiˈtesk/). When followed by hi or he (chi and che) and in all other cases, it represents /k/.

See also

edit

Saanich

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C

  1. The fifth letter of the Saanich alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Scottish Gaelic

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Scottish Gaelic alphabet, written in the Latin script. It is preceded by b and followed by d. Its traditional name is coll (“hazel”).

See also

edit

Silesian

edit

Etymology

edit

The Silesian orthography is based on the Latin alphabet. No earlier script is known. See the Silesian language article on Wikipedia for more, and C for development of the glyph itself.

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fourth letter of the Silesian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Skolt Sami

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. The fourth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Slovene

edit
 
Slovene Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sl

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

From Gaj's Latin alphabet C, from Czech C, from Latin C, from Etruscan 𐌂 (c), from Ancient Greek Γ (G, Gamma), from Phoenician 𐤂 (g, giml). Pronunciation as IPA(key): /cə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from German C.

Pronunciation

edit
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /t͡s/, [d͡z]
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /t͡sə́/, /t͡sèː/, /t͡séː/
  • Audio (letter name, non-tonal):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ə, -eː

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Slovene alphabet, written in the Latin script.
  2. The fourth letter of the Slovene alphabet (Resian), written in the Latin script.
  3. The third letter of the Slovene alphabet (Natisone Valley dialect), written in the Latin script.

Noun

edit

C m inan

  1. The name of the Latin script letter C / c.

Declension

edit
  • Overall more common
 
 The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. C
gen. sing. C-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik) 		C C-ja C-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik) 		C-ja C-jev C-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik) 		C-ju C-jema C-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik) 		C C-ja C-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik) 		C-ju C-jih C-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik) 		C-jem C-jema C-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. C
gen. sing. C
singular dual plural
nominative C C C
accusative C C C
genitive C C C
dative C C C
locative C C C
instrumental C C C

See also

edit

Somali

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ʕ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ʕæɪ̯n/

Letter

edit

C upper case (lower case c)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Somali alphabet, called cayn and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit
  1. The twelfth letter of the Somali alphabet, which follows Arabic abjad order. It is preceded by DH and followed by G.

See also

edit

Spanish

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Spanish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Noun

edit

C m

  1. (chess) Abbreviation of caballo.; K (knight)

Swedish

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Swedish alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Proper noun

edit

C n (genitive C:s)

  1. (politics) Abbreviation of Centerpartiet (“Centre Party”).
    Synonym: Centern
    • 2022 September 6, “Så förbereder S och C regeringssamarbete [This is how S and C prepare government cooperation]”, in Dagens Nyheter:
      Flera källor bekräftar att S nu ofta stämmer av politiska beslut med C:s partiledning.
      Several sources confirm that S now often reconciles political decisions with C's party leadership.

Tagalog

edit

Etymology

edit

Borrowed from Spanish C. Each pronunciation has a different source:

  • Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by English C.
  • Abecedario pronunciation is from Spanish C.

Pronunciation

edit
  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ˈsi/ [ˈsi] (letter name, Filipino alphabet)
      • Rhymes: -i
    • IPA(key): /ˈse/ [ˈsɛ] (letter name, Abecedario)
      • Rhymes: -e
    • IPA(key): /k/ [k] (phoneme)
    • IPA(key): /s/ [s] (phoneme, before vowels e and i)

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c, Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒ)

  1. The third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Filipino alphabet), called si and written in the Latin script.
  2. (historical) The third letter of the Tagalog alphabet (the Abecedario), called ce and written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

edit
  • This letter is mostly used only in Spanish-based spellings, proper nouns, or unadapted loanwords.

See also

edit

Further reading

edit
  • “C”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Tashelhit

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (lower case c)

  1. A letter of the Shilha alphabet.

Turkish

edit

Pronunciation

edit
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/
  • (letter name): IPA(key): /d͡ʒeː/

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Turkish alphabet, called ce and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Vietnamese

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The fifth letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called xê or cờ and written in the Latin script.

See also

edit

Welsh

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Welsh alphabet, called ec and written in the Latin script. It is preceded by B and followed by Ch.

Mutation

edit
Mutated forms of Cymru
radical soft nasal aspirate
Cymru Gymru Nghymru Chymru

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

See also

edit

Further reading

edit
  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “C”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zulu

edit

Letter

edit

C (upper case, lower case c)

  1. The third letter of the Zulu alphabet, written in the Latin script.

See also

edit
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=C&oldid=84539956"