Algorithm
The word 'algorithm' has its roots in Latinizing the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in a first step to "algorismus". Al-Khwārizmī (, , c. 780–850) was a Persian mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and scholar in the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, whose name means 'the native of Khwarezm', a region that was part of Greater Iran and is now in Uzbekistan.
Heredia (etymology)
According to Harvard University, Harvard's Archimedes Project, a scholarly research on the "history of mechanics and engineering from antiquity to the Renaissance" (Harvard), quotes etymological roots of Heredia from Latin as having various meanings including: