Steven Schwartzman would answer yes. See The Words of Mathematics: An Etymological Dictionary of Mathematical Terms Used in English, page 1.
I started asking my trivial and seemingly irrelevant question because I noticed that most students are not good at using mathematical terminology. Many of them haven’t realized that technical terms aren’t just arbitrary syllables designed to make their lives more difficult. The point I try to make with
my White House analogy is that most mathematical terms actually describe the things they refer to. The difficulty is that the descriptions are usually in Latin or Greek rather than English, and few students nowadays have been exposed to those ancient languages.
The study of the origins of words is known as etymology: this book is an etymological guide to the most common mathematical terms that occur in the elementary, secondary, and college curricula. Armed with this guide, students may find mathematics a little more understandable. Their nontechnical English vocabulary should also improve because the same roots found in technical terms occur in many other words as well, some of which will be pointed out in this book. At a time when many students’ English skills are very weak, it is important to stress English even in classes like mathematics and science that no longer focus on language as much as they once did.