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zero
zero /ˈze.ro/
noun#2115 most common
Also: nought, nil, a nobody (colloquial, of a person)
Example sentences
Afară sunt zero grade.
Outside it's zero degrees.
Am zero lei în buzunar.
I have zero lei in my pocket.
Echipa noastră a pierdut cu trei la zero.
Our team lost three to zero.
După faliment, a trebuit să o ia de la zero.
After the bankruptcy, he had to start from zero.
Contul lui bancar este pe zero de la sfârșitul lunii.
His bank account has been at zero since the end of the month.
În fizică, zero absolut reprezintă cea mai joasă temperatură posibilă din univers.
In physics, absolute zero represents the lowest possible temperature in the universe.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zero | zerouri |
| Genitive | zeroului | zerourilor |
| Accusative | zero | zerouri |
| Vocative | - | - |
Word family
zerourizeros (plural)
zero absolutabsolute zero (physics term)
de la zerofrom scratch
a fi un zeroto be a nobody, worthless (of a person)
cifrădigit, figureEtymology
Romanian borrowed "zero" from French "zéro" in the modern era, as part of a wave of Western Romance vocabulary that reshaped Romanian during the 19th century. French "zéro" itself came from Italian "zero", a contraction of "zefiro", from Medieval Latin "zephirum". That Latin form transliterated Arabic "ṣifr", meaning empty or cipher, the term Arabic mathematicians used for the placeholder digit 0. The word is not inherited from Latin or Proto-Indo-European; it entered Europe through Arabic mathematical texts in the Middle Ages.
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