I saw a tile store called Terra Firma once... And Veni, Vidi, Wi-fi would be a great name for an ISP.
Some of the chemical symbols are derived from element names in foreign languages, especially Latin.
Tornadoes do not have Latin names. The first documented tornado was in 1054, some time after the fall of the Roman Empire. Latin names are generally reserved for living organism anyway.
They usually begin with the letter that starts their Latin name (E.G., "aurum" = gold = Au).
Visene (there's a Visene for that!) come from the Latin videre, meaning to see
Latin names are quite good and Scottish Gaelic names are really nice as well.
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some elements have their symbols directly from their names. Eg: oxygen-O,nitrogen-N some get symbols from their latin names. eg: Potassium-K from Kalium (Latin for potassium)
It is only a convention.
Rufus (Latin for 'red head')
scietific names are usually Latin based
Latin was one of the first languages. Many other languages have Latin roots. And Not all the elements have Latin names. Some are named after famous people and scientist. Such as Einsteinium.
Because of their latin names. For example: Fe (iron) is ferrum in latin. Thus the Fe.