vernacular
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /vəˈnækjələ/, /vəˈnækjʊlə/
- (US) IPA(key): /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ver‧nac‧u‧lar
Noun edit
vernacular (plural vernaculars)
- The language of a people or a national language.
- Synonym: vulgate
- Coordinate terms: lingua franca, link language, vehicular language
- The vernacular of the United States is English.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- Language unique to a particular group of people.
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
- Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
- (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
Descendants edit
- →⇒ Irish: béarlagair
Translations edit
national language
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everyday speech
language unique to a particular group of people
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spoken language as opposed to literary or liturgical
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Further reading edit
- vernacular on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Adjective edit
vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
- Synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 111:
- There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature.
- Synonyms: native, indigenous
- a vernacular disease
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Synonym: folk
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- An English vernacular name for Rosa multiflora is multiflora rose.
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
pertaining to everyday language
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Further reading edit
- “vernacular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “vernacular”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vernacular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
vernacular m or f (plural vernaculares)
- vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)
- Synonym: vernáculo
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French vernaculaire.
Adjective edit
vernacular m or n (feminine singular vernaculară, masculine plural vernaculari, feminine and neuter plural vernaculare)
Declension edit
Declension of vernacular
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | vernacular | vernaculară | vernaculari | vernaculare | ||
definite | vernacularul | vernaculara | vernacularii | vernacularele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | vernacular | vernaculare | vernaculari | vernaculare | ||
definite | vernacularului | vernacularei | vernacularilor | vernacularelor |
References edit
- vernacular in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN