Webster
✕

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Vernacular

Ver·nac′u·lar (vẽr·năk′ū·lẽr), a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; — now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. "A vernacular disease." Harvey.

His skill the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller.

Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.

Ver·nac′u·lar, n. The vernacular language; one's mother tongue; often, the common forms of expression in a particular locality.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.