Zero etymology

English

English word zero comes from Sanskrit शून्य, Arabic صَفِرَ, Arabic صَفَرَ, Spanish zero, Ancient Greek (to 1453) Ζέφυρος, Latin zerum ((New Latin, mathematics) zero.)

Detailed word origin of zero

Dictionary entry Language Definition
शून्य Sanskrit (san) (math) cipher, cypher. Zero Blank, deserted. Destitute of. Empty, void.
صَفِرَ Arabic (ara)
صَفَرَ Arabic (ara)
zero Spanish (es)
Ζέφυρος Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
zerum Latin (lat) (New Latin, mathematics) zero.
صفر Arabic (ara) Empty, void, devoid, free from To chirp, to stridulate. To hiss. To scream (of a siren). To whistle To dye yellow, to make yellow, to color yellow Safar, the second of the twelve months of the Muslim lunar calendar, each beginning with a new moon. (medicine) jaundice To chirp, to stridulate. To hiss. To scream (of a siren). To whistle (cardinal) zero To be empty, to be devoid, to be vacant [...]
zephyrus Latin (lat) Zephyrus, the west wind.
صفر Andalusian Arabic (xaa)
صِفْر Arabic (ara)
zephirum Malayalam (mal)
zefiro Italian (it) A light west wind, a zephyr.
zero Italian (it) Nil (football). Zero (cardinal) zero Zero.
zéro French (fr) (cardinal) zero, nought, O (British, in reading numbers). (value) zero, nought.
zero English (en) (finance) A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).. (informal, uncountable) Nothing, or none.. (mathematics) A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.. (military) A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.. (slang) A person of little or no [...]

Words with the same origin as zero

Descendants of zero

cipher