WIKIPEDIA:
The ancient
Greeks noticed that amber
attracted small objects when rubbed with fur. Along with lightning,
this phenomenon is one of humanity's earliest recorded experiences
with electricity.[15]
In his 1600 treatise De
Magnete, the English scientist William
Gilbert coined the New
Latin term electricus, to refer
to this property of attracting small objects after being rubbed.[16]
Both electric and electricity are derived from the
Latin ēlectrum (also the root of
the alloy of the same
name), which came from the Greek word for amber, ήλεκτρον
(ēlektron).
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