section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The term exponent originates from the Latin exponentem, the present participle of exponere, meaning "to put forth". The term power (Latin: potentia, potestas, dignitas) is a mistranslation of the ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, here: "amplification") used by the Greek mathematician Euclid for the square of a line, following Hippocrates of Chios.