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Ancient Greek- e.g. chlorine, helium, hydrogen, lithium
Latin - e.g. Fluorine
see wikipedia article "List of chemical element name etymologies" for a full list of the derivations of the names.
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The elements of chemistry have been named in a variety of ways. Often, element names are derived from words of ancient languages, such as Latin and Ancient Greek. In other cases, element names are derived from the names of the people that discovered them, or people with a notable relation to the element.
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No. Most of the symbols for elements are derived from their names in English. Most of the elements were not even known in ancient Greece.
Latin was one of the first languages. Many other languages have Latin roots. And Not all the elements have Latin names. Some are named after famous people and scientist. Such as Einsteinium.
Many element's symbols are derrived from their ancient names. These names can be researched individually. For example, Pb is the symbol for lead. It's ancient Latin name was "plumbum".
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Because there are languages other than English, and elements have different names in those languages. Some of the symbols are taken from those languages instead. Latin is probably the most common; it's responsible for Fe, Na, K, Cu, Ag, Au, Sn, Sb, and Pb (at least... there may be a few others I missed). Tungsten is called Wolfram in some countries, and its symbol W comes from that name.
They get the names from ancient greek words and other ancient languages.
Some of the chemical symbols are derived from element names in foreign languages, especially Latin.
english-names of elements.