zeru

See also: zéru, žeru, and żeru

Basque

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Basque *zelu, a borrowing from Latin caelum; displaced native ortzi.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /s̻eɾu/ [s̻e.ɾu]

• IPA^(key): (most dialects) /s̻eɾu/ [s̻e.ɾu]
• IPA^(key): (Biscayan) /s̺eɾu/ [s̺e.ɾu]

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• Rhymes: -eɾu, -u
• Hyphenation: ze‧ru

Noun

zeru inan

1. sky

   Synonym: ortzi

2. heaven, paradise

   Synonym: paradisu

Declension

Declension of zeru (inanimate, ending in vowel)

	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	zeru	zerua	zeruak
ergative	zeruk	zeruak	zeruek
dative	zeruri	zeruari	zeruei
genitive	zeruren	zeruaren	zeruen
comitative	zerurekin	zeruarekin	zeruekin
causative	zerurengatik	zeruarengatik	zeruengatik
benefactive	zerurentzat	zeruarentzat	zeruentzat
instrumental	zeruz	zeruaz	zeruez
inessive	zerutan	zeruan	zeruetan
locative	zerutako	zeruko	zeruetako
allative	zerutara	zerura	zeruetara
terminative	zerutaraino	zeruraino	zeruetaraino
directive	zerutarantz	zerurantz	zeruetarantz
destinative	zerutarako	zerurako	zeruetarako
ablative	zerutatik	zerutik	zeruetatik
partitive	zerurik	—	—
prolative	zerutzat	—	—

Derived terms

• Jaun zerukoa (“God”)
• zeru eta lur
• zeru goien
• zeru goren
• zeru sabai
• zeru xahar
• zeru zabal
• zeru-azpi
• zeru-ekuatore
• zeru-esfera
• zeru-gain
• zeru-goi
• zeru-hemisferio
• zeru-lur
• zeru-zola
• zerua irabazi
• zerua iritsi
• zerualde
• zeruertz (“horizon”)
• Zeruetako Aita (“God the Father”)
• Zeruetako Erregina (“Virgin Mary”)
• zeruko Jauna (“God”)
• zerumuga (“horizon”)
• zerupe
• zeruratu
• zerutar (“heavenly”)

Further reading

• “zeru”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “zeru”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Corsican

Corsican cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : zeru

Etymology

From Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr). Cognates include Italian zero and French zéro.

Numeral

zeru

1. zero

References

• “zeru” in INFCOR: Banca di dati di a lingua corsa

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛ.ru/
• Rhymes: -ɛru
• Syllabification: ze‧ru

Noun

zeru n

1. dative singular of zero

Sassarese

Etymology 1

From earlier zelu, from Classical Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂i-lom (“whole”), derived from a root *koh₂i-, *kéy-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡se.ru/
• Hyphenation: zé‧ru

Noun

zeru m (plural zeri)

1. sky
   • 1957, Salvator Ruju, “Lu grìgliuru d’ignòr’Annamaria [Missus Annamaria's cricket]”, in Sassari véccia e nóba [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 184:

     Chi bèdda nótti pàsida d’isthiu!
     L’isthelli pàrini ócci di lu zéru.

     What a peaceful summer night! The stars look like eyes of the sky.

   • 1989, Giovanni Maria Cherchi, “Cunfini [Borders]”, in La poesia di l'althri (overall work in Italian and Sassarese), Sassari: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, page 17:

     […] un biddisò […]
     brilla i lu sòri e si zi torra a boru
     sempri più in althu i lu zeru biaittu.

     A sparrow shines in the sun, and flies back to it, higher and higher in the blue sky.

   • 2010 September 29, Ignazio Sanna, “Li sigurànzi di Don Fedele [Don Fedele's guarantees]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎^[1]:

     un préddi più che anzianu lagnu che azzua e facci biancu, cu’ l’ócci ciari iffussaddi sempri vulthaddi a zéru quasi ad ammirà ca sa ca misthéru

     a more-than-aged priest, thin as an anchovy, pale-faced, with light eyes sunken eyes always turned to the sky, as if he was contemplating some kind of mystery

2. (religion, also in the plural) heaven (abode of deities)
   • 2013 September 27, Ignazio Sanna, “L’ulthimi dì d’un inutiri avvinì [The last days of a pointless future]”, in Ignazio Sanna - Prosa e poesia in sassarese‎^[2]:

     No abèmmu aùddu figlióri, cussì la vuruntai di Déu di lu Zéru

     We haven't had any children: such [was] the will of God of Heaven.

3. (religion) heaven (afterlife of the blessed dead)
   • 1956, Salvator Ruju, “Ahi, sèmpri dugna dì [Alas! always, every day]”, in Agnireddu e Rusina [Old and new Sassari]; republished as Caterina Ruju, editor, Sassari véccia e nóba, Nuoro: Ilisso edizioni, 2001, →ISBN, page 106:

     Mi tòrra lu disizu
     di murì pa vidétti ancora viba
     undì nò v'è duròri,
     i lu zéru di l’ànimi bïadi

     The desire returns to me, to die so I can see you alive again, where there is no pain, in the heaven of blessed souls

Related terms

• cirèsthrinu

Etymology 2

Likely borrowed from Italian zero, from Medieval Latin zephirum, from Arabic صِفْر (ṣifr, “nothing”, “cipher”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈd͡zɛ.ru/
• Hyphenation: zè‧ru

Numeral

zeru

1. (cardinal number) zero

References

• Ugo Solinas (2016) Vocabolario sassarese-italiano fraseologico ed etimologico, volume 2, Sestu: Domus de Janas, →ISBN, page 1205
• Giosue Muzzo (1981) Vocabolario del dialetto sassarese, Chiarella Editore, →ISBN; republished, Sassari: Carlo Delfino editore, 2018, page 188
• Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes

Sicilian

Numeral

zeru

1. zero