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C.
C.
See also: c. and Appendix:Variations of "c"
English
Noun
C. (plural CC.)
- Century.
- Fig. 2: a 13 thC. illumination of ‘H’
Abbreviation
C.
- (law) Code.
Derived terms
Noun
C.
- (law) Abbreviation of chancellor.
Usage notes
This is the customary abbreviation of this term as used in legal citation. See, e.g., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, Nineteenth Edition (2010), "Judges and Officials", Table T11, p. 443.
French
Etymology
Abbreviation of grosse caisse (“bass drum”).
Noun
C. f (plural C.)
Latin
Etymology
From archaic Latin, when the letter C represented the phonetic value /g/.
Proper noun
C. m (indeclinable)
- Praenominal abbreviation of Cāius. Praenominal abbreviation of Gāius.
c.
c.
See also: C. and Appendix:Variations of "c"
English
Adverb
c. (not comparable)
- circa.
- The document was written in the Middle Ages, c.1250.
Noun
c.
Statistics
French
Conjunction
c.
- Abbreviation of comme.
References
- Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français (1934), “Abréviations et signes usuels”, page 1,720/1, s.v. ‘c.’
Noun
c. f (plural c.)
- Abbreviation of collection.
- C. Budé