cero

Corruption of Spanish sierra (“sawfish”).

cero (plural ceros or ceroes)

1. A large scombroid food fish (Scomberomorus regalis) found chiefly in the West Indies.

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• -core, CORE, Core, ROCE, co-r.e., core, creo, ocre

cero

1. zero

cero m (plural ceros)

1. zero

From Latin cervus.

• IPA^(key): (Central)
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia)

cero m (plural ceros)

1. (Balearic) Alternative form of cérvol (“deer”)

• “cero” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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• Rhymes: -ɛɾo
• Hyphenation: ce‧ro

cero (indeclinable)

1. zero

• “cero”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024

From Latin cēreus. Doublet of cereo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ro/
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: cé‧ro

cero m (plural ceri)

1. long church candle

• core, creo, creò, ocre, reco, recò

From cēra (“wax”) +‎ -ō.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.roː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃe.ro/,

cērō (present infinitive cērāre, perfect active cērāvī, supine cērātum); first conjugation

1. to smear or coat with wax

• “cero”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cero”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cero in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from New Latin zerum, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Andalusian Arabic صِفْر (ṣífr), from Classical Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “zero, nothing, empty, void”).

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /ˈθeɾo/
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /ˈseɾo/

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• Rhymes: -eɾo
• Syllabification: ce‧ro

cero

1. zero

cero m (plural ceros)

1. zero

• “cero”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10