英语词汇zero的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	zero
词源	zero. Zero derives from the Arabic cifr, meaning the same, which passed into Italian as zefiro, finally becoming zero in French and English. The word wasn’t used in English for the ar- ithmetical figure 0 until the early 17th century. The Arabic cifr, in turn, came from a Sanskrit word meaning “empty, nothing.” Our word cipher, which meant “zero” before it meant a code, also derives from cifr.
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