Zero in other languages

Zero in other languages

What’s in a name?
Portuguese  :  zero
Italian     : nullità 
French      :  zéro
German      : null
Spanish     :  cero 
Danish, Indonesian  : nol
Dutch       : nul
Finnish     : nolla
Hungarian     ; zero
Norwegian   : null
Swedish        : noll

Words similar or closer to meaning of  zero  are  cipher,  aught,  nought, naught, not, nil, null, nothing, none.

Probably the synonymous  word (z)ero and (n)il produced the word zilch, which is a slang meaning nothing. Sometime a person is also called  zilch to indicate as being insignificant or nonentity.

The word goose egg is another slang for zero, especially when written as a numeral to indicate that no points have been scored.

In mathematics, the terminology infinitesimal indicates a function or variable continuously approaching zero as a limit.

Nilpotent is an algebraic quantity that when raised to a certain power equals zero.