vernáculo

See also: vernaculo

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin vernāculus.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈna.ku.lu/ [veɦˈna.ku.lu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veʁˈna.ku.lu/ [veɦˈna.ku.lu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /veɾˈna.ku.lu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /veʁˈna.ku.lu/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /veɻˈna.ku.lo/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈna.ku.lu/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨɾˈna.ku.lu/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨɾˈna.ku.lu/

• Rhymes: -akulu
• Hyphenation: ver‧ná‧cu‧lo

Adjective

vernáculo (feminine vernácula, masculine plural vernáculos, feminine plural vernáculas)

1. vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)

   Synonym: vernacular

Noun

vernáculo m (plural vernáculos)

1. vernacular (national language)
2. vernacular (everyday speech)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vernāculus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɾˈnakulo/ [beɾˈna.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -akulo
• Syllabification: ver‧ná‧cu‧lo

Adjective

vernáculo (feminine vernácula, masculine plural vernáculos, feminine plural vernáculas)

1. vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)
   • 2019 May 22, Lina M. Sanchez, “Lenguaje incluyente: todx o lo impronunciable”, in El Tiempo (Colombia)‎^[1]:

     Una de las características del lenguaje escrito es que tiene vínculos estructurales e innegables con la lengua vernácula, o habalada^{[sic – meaning hablada]}.

     One of the characteristics of written language is that is has undeniable structural ties to the vernacular, or spoken, language.

Further reading

• “vernáculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014