vernacular
Appearance
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 (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ækjʊlə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ver‧nac‧u‧lar
Noun
[edit]vernacular (plural vernaculars)
- The language of a people or a national language.
- Synonyms: vulgate, vulgar
- 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.
- Near-synonym: basilect
- 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.
- (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.
- Near-synonyms: common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial, basilectal
- 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 by nature.
- Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
- a vernacular disease
- (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
- (taxonomy) Not attempting to use the rules of a taxonomic code, especially, not using scientific Latin.
- Synonym: common
- Hypernym: nonsystematic
- 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
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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]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
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