Where does “szyfr” come from?
szyfr (Polish) comes from Russian шифровка, from Russian шифровать, from Russian шифр, from French chiffre, from Italian cifra, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic صِفْر, from Sanskrit शून्य.
szyfr (Polish): cipher
Definitions
- cipher
Ancestry of “szyfr”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Russian | шифровка | enciphering, encryption |
| 2 | Russian | шифровать | to encrypt, to encode |
| 3 | Russian | шифр | cipher, code |
| 4 | French | chiffre | a digit i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9; a number;... |
| 5 | Italian | cifra | figure, numeral; sum; code, cipher |
| 6 | Medieval Latin | cifra | zero, numeral; numeral, cipher; zero |
| 7 | Arabic | صِفْر | zero, nothing, empty, void; nothing, cipher;... |
| 8 | Sanskrit | शून्य | zero; cipher, cypher; blank, deserted |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱówH- | — |