vernacular

== English == === Etymology === 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 === (UK) IPA(key): /vəˈnækjələ/, /vəˈnækjʊlə/ (US) IPA(key): /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/ Rhymes: -ækjʊlə(ɹ) Hyphenation: ver‧nac‧u‧lar === Noun === vernacular (plural vernaculars) The language of a people or a national language. Synonyms: vulgate, vulgar Coordinate terms: lingua franca, link language, vehicular language; official language; minority language 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. Synonyms: vulgate, vulgar (architecture) A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported. ==== Descendants ==== →⇒ Irish: béarlagair ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== vernacular on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Adjective === 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, demotic Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature. Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported. Synonym: folk Coordinate terms: primitive, naive (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 ==== Antonyms ==== unvernacular ==== Hyponyms ==== neo-vernacular ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === “vernacular”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “vernacular”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “vernacular”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Portuguese == === Pronunciation === === Adjective === vernacular m or f (plural vernaculares) vernacular (pertaining to everyday language) Synonym: vernáculo === Further reading === “vernacular”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “vernacular”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Romanian == === Etymology === Borrowed from French vernaculaire. === Adjective === vernacular m or n (feminine singular vernaculară, masculine plural vernaculari, feminine/neuter plural vernaculare) vernacular ==== Declension ==== === References === vernacular in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN