OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 2349

vernacular

/vəˈnækjələ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
vernáculo
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…
📚 noun • entry_id 2348

vernacular

/vəˈnækjələ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
dialecto • idioma
Language unique to a particular group of people.
For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
Near-synonyms: jargon, argot, dialect, slang
lengua vernácula
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.
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