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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. … Click Here to Read More