What is the origin of the word "algorithm"?
Algorithm
roots in Latinizing the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
The word 'algorithm' has its roots in Latinizing the name of Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi in a first step to algorismus.[11][12] Al-Khwārizmī (Arabic: الخوارزمي‎,  Persian: خوارزمی‎, 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.[13][14]