English

telecipher

From tele- + cipher.

Proto-Indo-European *kʷel- ‘to turn, revolve’

Ancient Greek τῆλε ‘at a distance, far off, far away, far from’

English tele-

Arabic صِفْر ‘zero, empty’

Medieval Latin cifra

Old French cyfre

Middle English cifre ‘the figure 0’

Today it means

noun A cipher machine that works in conjunction with a teletypewriter.

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

Etymograph / telecipher