C, or c, is the third letter in the English and ISO basic Latin alphabets.

Its name in English is cee, plural

cees. History "C" comes from the same letter as "G". The Semites named it gimel. The sign is possibly
adapted from an Egyptian hieroglyph for a staff sling, which may have been the meaning of the name
gimel. Another possibility is that it depicted a camel, the Semitic name for which was gamal. Barry B.
Powell, a specialist in the history of writing, states "It is hard to imagine how gimel "camel" can be
derived from the picture of a camel ". In the Etruscan language, plosive consonants had no contrastive
voicing, so the Greek 'Γ' was adopted into the Etruscan alphabet to represent . Already in the Western
Greek alphabet, Gamma first took a '15px' form in Early Etruscan, then '15px' in Classical Etruscan. In
Latin it eventually took the form in Classical Latin. In the earliest Latin inscriptions, the letters were used
to represent the sounds and . Of these, was used to represent or before a rounded vowel, before, and
elsewhere. During the 3rd century BC, a modified character was introduced for, and itself was retained
for . The use of replaced most usages of and . Hence, in the classical period and after, was treated as the
equivalent of Greek gamma, and as the equivalent of kappa; this shows in the romanization of Greek
words, as in 'ΚΑΔΜΟΣ', 'ΚΥΡΟΣ', and 'ΦΩΚΙΣ' came into Latin as, and, respectively. Other alphabets have
letters homoglyphic to 'c' but not analogous in use and derivation, like the Cyrillic letter Es which derives
from the lunate sigma, named due to its resemblance to the crescent moon.