zeru

Inherited from Proto-Basque *zelu, a borrowing from Latin caelum; displaced native ortzi.^[1]

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

zeru inan

1. sky

   Synonym: ortzi

2. heaven, paradise

   Synonym: paradisu

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

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

zeru

1. zero

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

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

zeru n

1. dative singular of zero

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

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

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

• cirèsthrinu

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

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

zeru

1. (cardinal number) zero

• 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

zeru

1. zero