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vernacular
- /vəˈnækjələ/ UK
- /vəˈnækjʊlə/ UK
- /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/ US
Rhymes with -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
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Latin verna
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Latin vernāculus
English vernacular
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)”).
noun vernaculars
- The language of a people or a national language. The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
- Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
- Language unique to a particular group of people. Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
- 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, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
- A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
adjective more vernacular · most vernacular
- Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom. Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal, demotic
- Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature. Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
- Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- 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.
