/ze.ʁo/
Translation
zero, nought
Word origin
From Italian zero, a contraction of Medieval Latin zephirum, which rendered Arabic sifr ('empty, nothing'). The same Arabic word reached English by another route as cipher.
- Origin
- Arabic
- Root
- sifr
- English cognates
- zero, cipher
Examples
, .
It is minus two degrees, so below zero.
.
My number starts with zero six.
L' .
The team lost three nil.
repart .
We start again from scratch tomorrow morning.
dictée.
He made no mistakes at all in his dictation.
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