chiffre

See also: Chiffre and chiffré

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chiffre

Noun

chiffre (plural chiffres)

(music) figure

French

Etymology

From Medieval Latin cifra (“zero”), from Andalusian Arabic صِفر‎ (ṣifr, “empty”). Doublet of zéro.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃifʁ/
audio (file)

Noun

chiffre m (plural chiffres)

a digit i.e. 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
(colloquial or dated) a number
figure (number)
cipher (method of transforming a text to conceal meaning)
cipher (code)
(music) figure
monogram

Derived terms

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

“chiffre” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Alternative forms

chifre
ciffre
cifre

cyffre
cyfre

Noun

chiffre m (oblique plural chiffres, nominative singular chiffres, nominative plural chiffre)

number; digit

Descendants

French: chiffre

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (chiffre)

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