Meaning

5 senses
  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

    umgangssprachlich, Umgangs-

    наро́дныйnaródnyj, ме́стныйméstnyj, просторе́чныйprostoréčnyj

    being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language

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

    Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic

    a vernacular disease

  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.

    наро́дныйnaródnyj

  4. Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

  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.

Examples

6 sentences
  1. He uttered an incomprehensible oath in the local vernacular before going on his way.

  2. This is a vernacular.

  3. I write Berber in its Kabyle vernacular form.

  4. Kabyle is the Berber vernacular I use and I'll stick to it.

  5. The pitaya's common English name of "dragon fruit" reflects its vernacular name in many Asian languages.

Translations

8 languages
Русский
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Deutsch
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Origin

From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from

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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