vernacular
adjEtymology 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)”).
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
- There are blacktips, silvertips, bronze whalers, black whalers, spinner sharks, and bignose sharks. These of course are vernacular names, but this is one case where the scientific nomenclature does not clarify the species, since it is now being revised.1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 111:
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
Architecture Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
5
Biology, Natural sciences, Taxonomy 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.
- Antonyms
- unvernacular
- Derived terms
- vernacular architecture, vernacular dance, vernacular dialect, vernacularism, vernacularist, vernacular language, vernacular name, vernacular school, vernacular variety
- Hyponyms
- neo-vernacular