vernacular
名词 n.
形容词 adj.
英 /vəˈnækjələ/|/vəˈnækjʊlə/
美 /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/
英文释义
名词 n.
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The language of a people or a national language.
— The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
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Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
— Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
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Language unique to a particular group of people.
— Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
- A language lacking standardization or a written form.
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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.
- A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
形容词 adj.
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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
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Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
— Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
- Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
- Connected to a collective memory; not imported.
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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.
词汇关系
词源
词源 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)”).
词源 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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