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Czech
Etymology
Borrowed from German Chiffre, from French chiffre (“digit, cipher”) from Italian cifra (“digit, cipher”), originally from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty, nothing”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
šifra f
- cipher (method for concealing the meaning of text)
- cipher (cryptographic system using an algorithm)
Declension
Declension of šifra (hard feminine reducible)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “šifra”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda
Further reading
- “šifra”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “šifra”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “šifra”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from French chiffre (“digit, cipher”), from Medieval Latin cifra (“zero”), from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, empty, nothing”).
Pronunciation
Noun
šȉfra f (Cyrillic spelling ши̏фра)
- code, cipher (method for concealing the meaning of text)
- Synonym: kȏd
- password, passcode
- Synonyms: lòzīnka, zápōrka
Declension
References
- “šifra”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024