Where do you think the word 'love' comes from in tennis?

Question

Where do you think the word 'love' comes from in tennis?

Answer 1

The 'love' in tennis comes from the french word l'oeuf, which means 'the egg'.

In tennis you use the word 'love' to mean zero points.

The egg is meant to represent a zero

Answer 2

it comes from the french word for egg l'oeuf which sounds like love.

though there is not complete surity about how it came to be used probably due to an eggs resemblance with 0 led to its usage this way.

anyway i think the scoring which uses love is so unique and really nice!

Answer 3

It reflects how our YA poster xno1rafafanx feels about Nadal.

Tennis = game of romance.

But seriously, the other guys are right.

Answer 4

Love originates from "l'oeuf", the French word for "egg", representing the shape of a zero.

The convention of numbering scores "15", "30" and "40" comes from quinze, trente and quarante, which to French ears makes a euphonious sequence, or from the quarters of a clock (15, 30, 45) with 45 simplified to 40.