Latin and Greek in Computing: Ancient Words in a New World

In computing, old words are reused by giving them new meanings. However, many people may not be aware of the origin of ancient words that have found new uses in computing. We advocate for basic computing science and engineering courses to cover the origins of the most common ancient words used in computing.We thank Mariano Arnal for his comments and suggestions on words and their origins. This work was supported in part by the ACHILLES project PID2019-104207RB-I00 funded by the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación 10.13039/501100011033. (We can see that Greek mythology also influences researchers when naming their projects. In our case, we took the name from the famous character in Homers' Iliad.