section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The word arthropod comes from the Greek ἄρθρον árthron ' joint ', and πούς pous (gen. ποδός podos) ' foot ' or ' leg ', which together mean "jointed leg", with the word "arthropodes" initially used in anatomical descriptions by Barthélemy Charles Joseph Dumortier published in 1832. The designation "Arthropoda" appears to have been first used in 1843 by the German zoologist Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777–1857). The origin of the name has been the subject of considerable confusion, with credit often given erroneously to Pierre André Latreille or Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold instead, among various others.
  
  Terrestrial arthropods are often called bugs. The term is also occasionally extended to colloquial names for freshwater or marine crustaceans (e.g., Balmain bug, Moreton Bay bug, mudbug) and used by physicians and bacteriologists for disease-causing germs (e.g., superbugs), but entomologists reserve this term for a narrow category of " true bugs ", insects of the order Hemiptera.