VERNACULAR

I. adjective Etymology: Latin vernaculus native, from verna slave born in the master's house, native Date: 1601 1. using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language, of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country, of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language, applied to a plant or animal in the common native speech as distinguished from the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification , of, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group, ~ly adverb II. noun Date: 1661 a ~ language, expression, or mode of expression, the mode of expression of a group or class, a ~ name of a plant or animal