Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗num
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe cardinal number occurring before one and that denotes no quantity or amount at all, represented in Arabic numerals as 0.
Collectively borrowed from Early Modern Spanish zero, Middle French zero, and (their etymon) Old Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zēphirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing; cipher”), itself calqued from Sanskrit शून्य (śūnyá, “void; nothingness”). Doublet of cipher and chiffre. Cognate with Spanish cero and French zéro.
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