Where does “szyfrować” come from?
szyfrować (Polish) comes from Polish szyfr, from Russian шифровка, from Russian шифровать, from Russian шифр, from French chiffre, from Italian cifra, from Medieval Latin cifra, from Arabic صِفْر.
szyfrować (Polish): to encrypt
Definitions
- to encrypt
Ancestry of “szyfrować”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Polish | szyfr | cipher |
| 2 | Russian | шифровка | enciphering, encryption |
| 3 | Russian | шифровать | to encrypt, to encode |
| 4 | Russian | шифр | cipher, code |
| 5 | French | chiffre | a digit i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9; a number;... |
| 6 | Italian | cifra | figure, numeral; sum; code, cipher |
| 7 | Medieval Latin | cifra | zero, numeral; numeral, cipher; zero |
| 8 | Arabic | صِفْر | zero, nothing, empty, void; nothing, cipher;... |
| 9 | Sanskrit | शून्य | zero; cipher, cypher; blank, deserted |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ḱówH- | — |