zero的词源
英文词源
- zero
- zero: [17] In common with many other English mathematical terms, zero comes ultimately from Arabic. Its distant ancestor is Arabic sifr, a noun use of an adjective meaning ‘empty’, which also produced English cipher. It passed into English via Old Spanish zero and French zéro.
=> cipher - zero (n.)
- "figure which stands for naught in the Arabic notation," also "the absence of all quantity considered as quantity," c. 1600, from French zéro or directly from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic sifr "cipher," translation of Sanskrit sunya-m "empty place, desert, naught" (see cipher (n.)).
A brief history of the invention of "zero" can be found here. Meaning "worthless person" is recorded from 1813. As an adjective from 1810. Zero tolerance first recorded 1972, originally U.S. political language. Zero-sum in game theory is from 1944 (von Neumann), indicating that if one player wins X amount the other or others must lose X amount. - zero (v.)
- in zero in, 1944, from zero (n.); the image is from instrument adjustment to a setting of "zero" (1909 in this sense, originally in rifle-shooting). Related: Zeroed; zeroing.
中文词源
来自法语zero,来自意大利语zero,来自中世纪拉丁语zephirum,来自阿拉伯语 sifr,空的，空无，词源cipher.最终来自梵语sunya,空的。
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：zero 词源，zero 含义。
这是又一个源于阿拉伯语的科技用词。意为“空的”或“零”的阿拉伯语sifr进入意大利语后，先是拼作zefiro，以后缩略为zero，法语从意大利语吸收了这个词，作zéro，仍用以指“零”，以后英语又从法语直接借了过来。但zero是直到17世纪初期才在英语里被用作数字零的名称。英语另有一个词cipher（亦作cypher），在被用以表示“密码”之前也一度指“零”。其实它也源于同一个阿拉伯词，即sifr。
来自阿拉伯语 sifr,零，空无，神秘，词源 cipher.最终来自梵语。
