[ və'nakjʊlə ]
■ noun
1》 the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people of a country or region.
↘ informal the specialized terminology of a group or activity.
2》 ~ architecture.
■ adjective
1》 spoken as or using one's mother tongue rather than a second language.
2》 (of architecture) concerned with domestic and functional rather than public buildings.
Derivatives
~ism noun
~ity noun
~ize or ~ise verb
~ly adverb
Origin
C17: from L. vernaculus 'domestic, native' + -ar 1 .