vernacular

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/vəˈnækjələ/|/vəˈnækjʊlə/    /vɚˈnækjəlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The language of a people or a national language.
    — The principal vernacular of the United States is English.
  2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
    — Near-synonyms: basilect, demotic
  3. Language unique to a particular group of people.
    — Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
  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.
    — Vatican II, a church council in the 1960s, allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.
  6. A style of architecture involving local building materials and styles; not imported.
形容词 adj.
  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. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or by nature.
    — Near-synonyms: native, indigenous; endemic
  3. Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
  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.

词形变化

vernaculars plural more vernacular comparative most vernacular superlative

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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