vernaculus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /u̯erˈnaː.ku.lus/, [u̯ɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /verˈna.ku.lus/, [verˈnäːkulus]
Adjective edit
vernāculus (feminine vernācula, neuter vernāculum); first/second-declension adjective
- native, domestic, indigenous, vernacular (originally of slaves)
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | vernāculus | vernācula | vernāculum | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernācula | |
| Genitive | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernāculī | vernāculōrum | vernāculārum | vernāculōrum | |
| Dative | vernāculō | vernāculō | vernāculīs | ||||
| Accusative | vernāculum | vernāculam | vernāculum | vernāculōs | vernāculās | vernācula | |
| Ablative | vernāculō | vernāculā | vernāculō | vernāculīs | |||
| Vocative | vernācule | vernācula | vernāculum | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernācula | |
Descendants edit
- Catalan: vernacle
- English: vernacular
- →⇒ Irish: béarlagair
- French: vernaculaire
- Galician: vernáculo
- Italian: vernacolo
- Portuguese: vernáculo
- Spanish: vernáculo
References edit
- “vernaculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vernaculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vernaculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.