Most technical, legal and scientific words in English are Latinisms, reflecting how we slowly rediscovered the insights of a lost civilization. Even half our programming language keywords are essentially Latin. So happy that we don't use Roman numerals though.
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Replying to @Plinz
It's rather that expressions and terms of the antique remained vacant for a new use after the original languages disappeared. It was modern research and geniality which filled those terms with new life.
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Replying to @GKurihama
Such a good thing that "expressius", "termino", "antiquitas", "remaneo", "vacare", "originalis", "appareo", "modernus" and "genialis" were not squatted by cooking ingredients while they were vacant!
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Replying to @Plinz
They never were; at least not in English. But terms like matrix, dynamic, nexus, kinetics and a lot more got a completely new meaning of which the Greeks never dared to dream. The erudition of scientists brought the words to new meanings which could just emerge in modernity.
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Yes! After the enlightenment, science and philosophy had a much greater community to draw from, and really took off again. I think the 1500 year lull was due to the active rejection of rationalism after the Catholics turned Europe into a cult.
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