vernacular

• adj. 本國的；地方的；用本地語寫成的
• n. 本地話，方言；動植物的俗名

來自拉丁語verna,家仆，尤指出生在主人家的仆人後代，引申詞義本土的，地方的，後用於指地方性語言，即方言。比較family.

vernacular (adj.)

c. 1600, "native to a country," from Latin vernaculus "domestic, native, indigenous; pertaining to home-born slaves," from verna "home-born slave, native," a word of Etruscan origin. Used in English in the sense of Latin vernacula vocabula, in reference to language. As a noun, "native speech or language of a place," from 1706.

For human speech is after all a democratic product, the creation, not of scholars and grammarians, but of unschooled and unlettered people. Scholars and men of education may cultivate and enrich it, and make it flower into the beauty of a literary language; but its rarest blooms are grafted on a wild stock, and its roots are deep-buried in the common soil. [Logan Pearsall Smith, "Words and Idioms," 1925]

1. There are many strange words in the vernacular of the lawyers.

律師的術語中頗有些怪字.

來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》

2. Most of these new sermons were recorded in literary Sanskrit rather than in vernacular language.

這些新的布道稿本大部分是用書麵梵語而不是方言記載的。

來自柯林斯例句

3. To use the vernacular of the period, Peter was square.

用那時的土話講，彼得是個老古板。

來自辭典例句

4. Paraphrase the ancient Chinese prose in vernacular language.

把這篇古文譯成白話文。

來自辭典例句

5. He speaks an incomprehensible vernacular.

他說的是一種無法聽得懂的方言.

來自辭典例句