c

c · character, numeral¹

Old English lower case letter c, from 7th century replacement by Latin lower case c of the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc letter ᚳ (c, “cen”).

c · preposition, adverb, noun²

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C · proper noun³

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

C · noun, verb⁴

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C · adjective⁵

1. Malay · borrowed fromcair“melted”
2. Hainanese · borrowed from鮮 /鲜“fresh”
3. English todayC

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