Well the Romans loved their false etymologies, so it seems fitting.

Can you explain? I didn't even know Romans thought about etymologies.

They put quite a lot of though into it, and so did the Greeks. They thought that the origins of words could shed light (sometime divine light) on meaning, and they used etymology to tell stories and offer moral guidance.

The problem is that many classical (and later) scholars, historians and poets were prone to uncritically repeating stories without doing any fact checking, or just making stuff up to fit the narrative. The same is true for their etymologies.

Socrates and Plutarch in particular have reputations for their imaginative etymologies.

(for readers wondering where then does ignite come from? it comes from ignire, latin which roughly translates to to set on fire, ignis being the latin for fire. the verb has a derivation similar to how we google, googled)