c

Etymology 1
Modification of upper case letter, from Etruscan , from Ancient Greek , from Phoenician.

Letter

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

Usage notes

 * Not to be confused with (the lunate sigma).
 * In many languages, the letter represents both a “hard”  sound and a “soft” sound (,, , or ), based on the following letter.
 * In a number of languages, it is used only for the sound.
 * In many languages, it occurs frequently in the digraph with.
 * In some romanization systems of non-Latin scripts, it represents, , or.

Symbol

 * 1)  voiceless palatal plosive.
 * 2)  the IPA affricate.
 * 3)  -onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), -release, -coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * 1)  -onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), -release, -coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.
 * 1)  -onset (prestopping / preocclusion / preplosion), -release, -coloring, or a weak, fleeting or epenthetic.

Etymology 2
Lower case form of upper case roman numeral C, a standardization of and  because the latter happens to be an abbreviation of, from abbreviation of ƆIC, an alternative form of >I<, from tally stick markings resembling  (a superimposed  and ), from the practice of designating each tenth X notch with an extra cut.

Alternative forms

 * C, c, Ⅽ, LL, ll, Ↄ, ↄ, ƆIC, Ж, >I<

Numeral

 * 1) cardinal number one hundred (100).

Usage notes
With a bar over the numeral, i.e., as c̅, it represents one hundred thousand.

Derived terms

 * English: c-note

Etymology 3
From centi-, from.

Symbol

 * 1) centi-.

Etymology 4
From.

Symbol

 * 1)  The speed of light, 2.99792458 × 108 m/s.
 * 2)  The speed of a fluid wave (water or air).

Symbol

 * 1)  The space of convergent sequences.

Etymology 1
lower case letter, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter.

Pronunciation

 * (usually spelled )


 * Usage notes: In English, c is usually pronounced as /k/ ("crack", "climb", "clone"), sometimes pronounced as /s/ ("cereal", "celebrity", "citron"), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ ("ciao", "cello", "vermicelli"). Sometimes c is pronounced as /tʃ/ due to . (Italian has a rule that states that c before i or e is pronounced as /tʃ/.)
 * Usage notes: In English, c is usually pronounced as /k/ ("crack", "climb", "clone"), sometimes pronounced as /s/ ("cereal", "celebrity", "citron"), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ ("ciao", "cello", "vermicelli"). Sometimes c is pronounced as /tʃ/ due to . (Italian has a rule that states that c before i or e is pronounced as /tʃ/.)

Etymology 2
Various abbreviations


 * exception: is written
 * 1)  the consonant /tʃ/
 * 2)  the sound sequence /siː/
 * 1)  the sound sequence /siː/

Noun

 * 1)  The middle tone in either one of the sets of seven white keys on a keyboard or a set of seven strings on a stringed instrument.

Usage notes

 * Used chiefly in recent loanwords and foreign proper nouns.

Usage notes

 * Used only in foreign words.

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2
German musical notation.

Noun

 * 1)  C note

Pronunciation

 * before 'a'/'o'/'u', before 'i'/'e'/'y'
 * before 'a'/'o'/'u', before 'i'/'e'/'y'

Etymology
Short of.

Alternative forms

 * $⟨ᶜ⟩$ in Uʼmista orthography (standard Kwakʼwala)

Etymology
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.

Letter




Etymology 1
From, from the uppercase letter , from Etruscan , from , from.

Pronunciation

 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").
 * Usage notes: In Norwegian, c is pronounced as /k/ before the vowel letters a, o, and u, as well as all consonants ("campus", "corner", "cue", "credo"), it is pronounced as /s/ before the vowel letters i, e, y and æ ("cicerone", "cellete", "cyste", cæsar), and rarely pronounced as /tʃ/ or /ʃ/ in some Italian loanwords ("cembalo", "ciabatta", "cello").

Noun

 * 1) the letter, the third letter of the Norwegian alphabet
 * 2) indicates the third entry in a list, order or rank
 * 3)  C, c-note
 * 1)  C, c-note
 * 1)  C, c-note

Usage notes

 * Only used in words of foreign origin, usually English. Even rare in loanwords, as this letter does not represent a sound of its own.
 * Still kept in many Christian names, therefore Caroline and Karoline are both acceptable spellings.

Etymology 2
Abbreviation of, from , from , from , from.

Etymology 3
Abbreviation of, from , from , from , from , from , from , from.

Etymology 4
Abbreviation of, from , from , from , from , from , from , from , from.

Etymology 5
Abbreviation of, from (from , from ) and  (from , from ), both stemming from , from , from , from.

Etymology 6
Abbreviation of, from , from , from.

Pronunciation

 * , or if voiced

Etymology 2
From, short form of.

Usage notes
See for pronunciation notes.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by . Its traditional name is .

Letter

 * 1) The 3rd letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet, preceded by  and followed by.

Alternative forms

 * (Metelko alphabet)
 * (Bohorič alphabet)

Etymology
From Gaj's Latin alphabet, from Czech alphabet , from latin , which is a modification of upper case letter , from Etruscan , from Ancient Greek , from Phoenician. Pronunciation as is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably taken from.

Symbol

 * 1)  Phonetic transcription of sound [].

Inflection

 * Overall more common


 * More common when with a definite adjective

Etymology 1
See the etymology at.

Etymology 1
. Each pronunciation has a different source:
 * Filipino alphabet pronunciation is influenced by.
 * Abecedario pronunciation is from.

Usage notes

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

Etymology 2
, homophonous to.

Letter

 * 1)  It is preceded by  and followed by .

Mutation

 * c at the beginning of words mutates to in a, to  in a  and to  in an , for example with the word :