And it's definitely not alone: a huge amount of scientific nomenclature for organisms comes from Greek or Latin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and

And it's definitely not alone: a huge amount of scientific nomenclature for organisms comes from Greek or Latin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_commonly_used_in_systematic_names https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_and_Greek_words_...