Puppet and Marionette

Puppet: 1520s from Old French poupette, diminutive of poupée "doll" (13c.), from Vulgar Latin *puppa, from Latin pupa "girl, doll".

Metaphoric extension to "person whose actions are manipulated by another" first recorded 1540s.

-- Online Etymological Dictionary

The Greek word translated as "puppet" is "νευρόσπαστος" (nevrospastos), which literally means "drawn by strings, string-pulling", from "νεῦρον" (nevron), meaning either "sinew, tendon, muscle, string", or "wire", and "σπάω" (spaō), meaning "draw, pull".

In French. marionette = "little Mary". One of the first figures to be made into a marionette was the Virgin Mary, hence the name.

-- Wikipedia