When most people hear the term gamergate, they may think of the 2014 online harassment campaign aimed at women in the video game industry. However, in the world of entomology, gamergate has a different meaning. It refers to a type of egg-laying worker ant. Coined by geneticist William Brown in 1983, the word has no connection to gamers or gates. Instead, it is derived from the Greek words gamos, meaning “marriage”, and ergates, meaning “worker” (thus, a gamergate is a “married worker ant”). The term gamos is also the root of many words that end in –gamy, all related to marriage, stemming from the Proto-Indo-European root gem, which means “to marry”. On the other hand, ergates comes from the Greek word ergon, which means “work” and is found in various commonly used words like ergonomic, metallurgy, and surgeon. The origins of ergon can be traced back to Proto-Hellenic ergon and Proto-Germanic ergom, both meaning “work”.