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The English word arachnid derived in 1806 from the French word arachnide OR the Modern Latin Arachnida, as introduced for the name of the class of arthropods in 1815 by French biologist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antione de Monet de Lamarck (1744-1829), from the Greek wordarakhne, meaning "spider", also cognate with the Latin word aranea, meaning "spider, spider's web", from aracsna.

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