Why are Latin terms still used today?

Answer 1

People still study Latin so scientists can read remains from the old times.

Answer 2

Lots of people have been using Latin language, writing, and numerals for a pretty long time. It is important because not that many people around the world can speak English, so they have to use Latin to speak because Latin is the easiest language.

Answer 3

Latin was the language of the ancient Romans. The Romans became a power to contend with, not only in the immediate area of the Mediterranean, but also inland. For theirs was a great conquering, and trading, civilization. Wherever they went, the ancient Romans brought their culture, their language, and their ways of doing things. For example, the interaction between the ancient, classical Latin language of the conquering ancient Romans and the ancient, native languages of the modern countries of France, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and Spain resulted in the related Romance languages of today. The Romans further unified the area, and everywhere else they went, with their architecture, government, legal traditions, literature, and roadbuilding. With all their power, and all the resources at their disposal, the Romans were able to refine key aspects of their civilization, from the attractive educational aspects of Roman citizenship, to the disturbing intimidation aspects of crucifixion to dissenters. Consequently, the Romans ensured permanent impacts on every country that they entered or dealt with, and those impacts are still with us today, such as in the staying power of Latin proverbs and of legal terms, and the words of everyday use.

Answer 4

It's not. No language is "perfect" in the sense of being the easiest to learn or the most expressive. One language may be easy for me to learn, and almost impossible for someone else depending on what one's first language is, how early in life one begins learning and other factors as individual as interest in the language. Also, some languages have single words for concepts that take whole sentences to explain in others.

However, most of Europe inherited many concepts from the Romans, or from the Greeks via the Romans, so we tend to use Latin for many terms in philosophy and the sciences. English in particular is actually one of the Germanic languages, but borrowed many words from Old French, a descendant of Latin, and later borrowed Latin terms directly when many of the modern sciences became their own areas of study outside of mathematics or natural history.

Answer 5

You can see the influence of Latin in many of the words we use today. Our calendar comes from the one adopted by the Roman ruler Julius

Caesar. The names of several months come from Latin. it also

remains very important in the subjects of the law, medicine, and

Religion.