Why does scientists prefer Latin words as scientific name?

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Why does scientists prefer Latin words as scientific name?
Your answer can be devided in two different answer:


1) why use scientific names?


2) why scientific names ?





Keep in mind that scientific names are invented by today scientist using latin forms; they aren't real LAtin names as used in Old Rome


1) scientific name are given by scientist to individual species.


Natural languages (= spoken language) often:


- don't have name for each species; and usually Natural languages use the same name for different species: eg "worm" is a name for very different animal species, even unrelated each to other


- these names are different from language to language





2) why Latin and not a natural language (French, Spanish, English and so on)?


- Karl von Linn茅 (Linneus) had the idea of scientific two-names names (binomia nomenclature); in his age Latin was the language for educated works and essays, the language of science


- after that, it was preferable to keep using Latin, as a dead language prevent competition and jealousy between today spoken language
Reply:well, simply beacuse Latin is a dead language. anymore. It's becomes a constant language, never changing. Imagine using a growing language, it would be hard because the language keeps on developing and gaining more meaning. By using latin, it lessens the confusion.
Reply:Latin is the lingua franca of science.
Reply:for the last 2000 years or so, LATIN has been the language of scholars.





not so much now, but the habit of using latin naming and words continues.
Reply:It is the universal language of scientists so that no mistakes can be made when speaking of medical treatments, botany etc etc. Basically so that they do not have to interpret names in languages other than their own.
Reply:It is universally recognised by scientist.
Reply:Latin is used because until very recently it was universally taught in the western world and much of western Asia, ie., it is (was) widespread.


Most European languages have a lot of Latin words or its derivatives still.


Because it is no longer a living language it is supposedly unchanging and universally uniform. This last statement, sad to say, is not completely true.


Lots of Latin words are rendered differently by the living languages in use today. I was pretty disappointed to see this years ago when I started working in S. America. I was told that the renderings resulted in the same pronunciation. This was also false.


Still, the different renderings are recognizable.
Reply:becuase latin is an old langage and doesnt change, that way once you know it anyone who knows it will no what you talk bout...
Reply:Latin has been used for the purposes of religion, science, and many other things. Latin is basically the core of every language, and everyone pretty much could understand it. It basically is the formula of words, so using one of the most ancient languages that is still understandable makes perfect sense.