English

empty string

From empty (“containing no elements”) + string (“ordered sequence of text characters”).

A compound of empty ‘containing no elements’ + string ‘ordered sequence of text characters’

Old English ǣmtiġ ‘vacant’

Middle English emty ‘empty’

English empty

Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- ‘rope’

Proto-Germanic *strangiz

Proto-West Germanic *strangi

Old English strenġ

Middle English string

Today it means

noun A string with a length of zero.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / empty string