vernaculus
Latin
Alternative forms
- vernaclus (Late Latin, proscribed)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛrˈnaː.kʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [verˈnaː.ku.lus]
Adjective
vernāculus (feminine vernācula, neuter vernāculum); first/second-declension adjective
- native, domestic, indigenous, vernacular (originally of slaves)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | vernāculus | vernācula | vernāculum | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernācula | |
| genitive | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernāculī | vernāculōrum | vernāculārum | vernāculōrum | |
| dative | vernāculō | vernāculae | vernāculō | vernāculīs | |||
| accusative | vernāculum | vernāculam | vernāculum | vernāculōs | vernāculās | vernācula | |
| ablative | vernāculō | vernāculā | vernāculō | vernāculīs | |||
| vocative | vernācule | vernācula | vernāculum | vernāculī | vernāculae | vernācula | |
Descendants
- Catalan: vernacle
- English: vernacular
- →⇒ Irish: béarlagair
- French: vernaculaire
- Galician: vernáculo
- Italian: vernacolo
- Portuguese: vernáculo
- Spanish: vernáculo
References
- “vernaculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vernaculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vernaculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.