Definition:Field (Abstract Algebra)/Linguistic Note
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Note that while in English the word for this entity is field, its name in other European languages translates as body.
The original work was done by Richard Dedekind, who used the word Körper. When translating his work into English, Eliakim Moore mistakenly used the word field.
The translator into French did not make the same mistake.