Why are Latin and Greek words still heavily used everywhere? Like university frats and sororities, latin honors, and Biological terms? Why would they not use the English equivalent words instead for these words specifically?

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Why are Latin and Greek words still heavily used everywhere? Like university frats and sororities, latin honors, and Biological terms? Why would they not use the English equivalent words instead for these words specifically?

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Answer 1

Those were the languages of education hundreds of years ago. Their words worked in with very specific meanings. The benefit for us is that we now have words with very defined specific meanings that don’t shift all the time and they are consistent across multiple languages.