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Certain: The standard etymology in the RAE dictionary and in Corriente; no serious doubt.Science & games · Everyday

cero

zeronúmero que indica ausencia de cantidad

Comes from Arabic

صِفْر

ṣifr

“empty; zero”«vacío; cero»

Arabic today says

صِفْر

ṣifr

And it still does

Root

ص ف ر

ṣ-f-r

The article

It came in without the article.

The story

It came through Italian zero (a contraction of zefiro, from medieval Latin zephirum, an adaptation of ṣifr), and is a doublet of cifra. Arabic ṣifr in turn translated Sanskrit śūnya, "empty".Llegó por el italiano zero (contracción de zefiro, del latín medieval zephirum, adaptación de ṣifr), y es doblete de cifra. El árabe ṣifr traducía a su vez el sánscrito śūnya, «vacío».

In a sentence

Ganamos tres a cero.

We won three to nothing.

فُزْنَا ثَلَاثَةً مُقَابِلَ صِفْر.

More words from the root ص ف ر

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