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Cipher comes from the same root as Zero (sifr), making it a doublet word.
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/30774/origin-of-z...
hnmcs
on March 13, 2015
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So the whole thing is a love poem then, with "cipher" actually meaning "zero", "nothing", or "negate".
Cool.
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