How did Computer get the name Computer. Who framed it?

Answer 1

The word computer dates back to the Latin word compute which means to calculate, reckon, to count up. This became a French word computer which meant to calculate. By the 1600s the word was used in English to describe the person doing the calculations. By the 1800s the word computer was used to describe equipment capable of doing calculations, slide rules and time keeping devices, which subsequently evolved to describe the electronic computers that arrived in the late 1940s and has now become computers as we know them today.