Where did the word Math came from?

[Ephratah7]

Where did the word Math came from?

 

[EnumaElish]

I am guessing, ancient Greece? My second guess would be Arabic.

 

[HallsofIvy]

If you worry about such things, you might find the website "Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics" interesting:
http://members.aol.com/jeff570/mathword.html

It says:

MATHEMATICS. Pythagoras is said to have coined the words philosophy for "love of wisdom" and mathematics for "that which is learned."

Mathematics is found in English in 1581 in Positions, wherein those primitive circumstances be examined, which are necessarie for the training up of children by Richard Mulcaster. (The word is spelled "mathematikes.") (OED2)

 

[Ephratah7]

"Euclid alone has looked on beauty bare"

---HallsofIvy