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Vernacular

//vɚˈnækjəlɚ// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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"

  2. 2
    Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.

    "Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic"

  3. 3
    Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
  4. 4
    Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
  5. 5
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The language of a people or a national language.

    "The principal vernacular of the United States is English."

  2. 2
    the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) wordnet
  3. 3
    Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

    "Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic"

  4. 4
    a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) wordnet
  5. 5
    Language unique to a particular group of people.

    "Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang"

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  1. 6
    A language lacking standardization or a written form.
  2. 7
    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."

  3. 8
    A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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)”).

Etymology 2

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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