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Other Western mathematicians didn’t change the word so heavily and called zero cifra, which became cipher.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Jordan, loc. cit., gives from twelfth and thirteenth century manuscripts the forms cifra, ciffre, chifras, and cifrus.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Karpinski, Louis Charles
At the same time the words algorismus and cifra were coming into general use even in non-mathematical literature.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Karpinski, Louis Charles
