where do sensitivity, specificity, recall and precision terms come from?

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Binomial classification accuracy metrics is filled with lot of definitions as sensitivity, specificity, recall, precision. Sometimes I have felt confused with the terms and I would appreciate if instead of memorizing the terms, I understand why they are called in such way.

Do someone know where such terms come from? Can someone reccommend a book chapter with the history of this terms or how they rose up to the literature?