How come so many latin proverbs still permeate around the globe,

Latin is the core of the romance language, and was also widely spoken in Europe for centuries.

Most Greek stuff was translated into Latin.

>>8685449

latin is so concise and pretty
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>>8685498
heh
reminds me of the time that guy posted form the Vatican on /pol/

>>8685449

Latin was the language of the international european elite till the 1600s when it was replaced by French.
In the 1500s and 1600s and even 1700s a lot of great works were still being written in Latin. Descartes and Spinoza wrote in Latin. Newton wrote in Latin.
The first treaty between Russia and China was made in Latin, the Chinese used Jesuit Priests.

Also, Latin is a very Synthetic language. Because of that, it can say the same things as other languages with less words, because those words are modified through inflection to express extra information like gender or number or case.
That is why quotes in latin look better.

example

A verbis legis non est recedendum - There must be no departure from the words of the law

>>8685498
>it was a requirement to learn Latin if you were a catholic

If you were part of the clergy.

Latin speakers, how do you talk about things that didn't exist when the language became obsolete?

Is a new name coined, words agglutinated or a loanword used?

Example: how would you say "cell phone" in Latin?

Seneca or Lucretius would say otherwise as it was kinda primitive language, example: there was no equivalent for greek "ov"

>>8685617

The Vatican produces a dictionary for this purpose. But it's generally considered fairly inelegant, because it tends to make use of periphrasis. However, new vocabulary is also generated by the proponents of Latin as a language if not exactly living, then also not quite dead. One example, drawing on various sources, is David Morgan's Lexicon Latinum; another is Whitakker's Words (http://www.archives.nd.edu/words.html).

>>8687164
>Whitakker's Word

"Whitaker"

>>8685449

As others have said, Latin remained in use in the parts of Europe which, and whose languages, became most influential on the languages and cultures of the last few centuries. Sometimes this influence is direct, as in the Romance languages (of which the influence of French and Spanish is especially obvious); sometimes more indirect - English has a great deal of Latin-influenced vocabulary, but this is often via French and other sources. Because of this, and because Latin remained an international language of religion, scholarship, and law in Western Europe, many more people came to know at least some Latin, than ever did Greek in many parts of Europe.

Greek never quite disappeared in the West, and from the early centuries of the second millennium CE / AD especially, there were more concerted efforts by some to learn it; however, these were largely by people who already knew Latin, and it became the convention to produce editions and other materials for the study of Greek texts, using Latin, so that even when Greek was reestablished as part of the Western cultural landscape, it was almost also in company with Latin, which was generally studied earlier and longer, by more people.

This, along with the influences of Latin on modern European languages, contributed to the greater prominence of that language.

>>8685617
cellus phonus

>>8685449
>>8687190

There's also the fact that Latin has a smaller vocabulary and simpler structure than Greek (e. g., fewer moods and voices, fewer irregular verbs), and does not exhibit the same variety of dialect. This means that with a good core vocabulary, a person educated in Latin can generally read much of what was written in the language over many centuries; whereas in Greek there are many more synonyms, dialect forms, and compounds (Greek loves compounds, the way many modern Germanic languages do), and reading different genres or authors over a relatively narrow time frame may require significantly different vocabulary. This may make Latin more likely to "stick" with those who have learned it but are not using it on a very regular basis.

However, the very familiarity of Latin in mottoes and popular proverbs and quotations would also have reinforced its (and their) continued use.

So it's much more about history, than about the nature and attributes of the languages.