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vernacular

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WOTD – 1 March 2010

Etymology

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Etymology tree
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)”).

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    Noun

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    vernacular (plural vernaculars)

    1. The language of a people or a national language.
      Synonyms: vulgate, vulgar
      Coordinate terms: lingua franca, link language, vehicular language; official language; minority language
      The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
      The idea that the Bible should be translated into vernaculars was explosive in medieval society.
    2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
      Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
      Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
    3. Language unique to a particular group of people.
      Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
      For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
    4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
    5. Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.
      Synonyms: vulgate, vulgar
      Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
    6. (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

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    • →⇒ Irish: béarlagair

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    Adjective

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    vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)

    2. 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
      • 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.
    4. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
      Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
      a vernacular disease
    6. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
      Synonym: folk
      Coordinate terms: primitive, naive
    8. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
    10. (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.

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    Adjective

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    vernacular m or f (plural vernaculares)

    1. vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)
      Synonym: vernáculo

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    Romanian

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from French vernaculaire.

      Adjective

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      vernacular m or n (feminine singular vernaculară, masculine plural vernaculari, feminine/neuter plural vernaculare)

      1. vernacular

      Declension

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      Declension of vernacular
      singular plural
      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

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      • vernacular in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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