I've had to learn a little Latin, because it's the root of half the English language, and I would not describe it this way at all. It's overly complex and arbitrary. The https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_spelling_and_pronunciati... article is full of tables of exceptions. Over its lifetime, they not only couldn't agree on pronunciation, but whether it had lower-case letters, whether to put spaces between words, or which direction to write it.
C is Latin. It's revered because of its age and the the works written in it. It was in the right place at the right time. Half the world who came after tried to make their own improved version, and those improved versions are the languages that are actually popular today.
What spoken language is powerful and elegant? When I was in college, a friend was taking a language (I think it was Swahili but don't quote me on that) that was so simple students learned all of the grammar in the first semester. Everything after that was just learning vocabulary and getting comfortable with it. Turkish has a completely 1:1 mapping of letters to sounds, and perfectly regular conjugation. Korean also has an extremely consistent writing system. Any of those seem more Lisp-like to me than Latin.