Other forms: vernaculars
The vernacular is the everyday language of ordinary people in a place. In the vernacular, vernacular architecture, the local vernacular.
Translating the Bible into the vernacular got people killed in the sixteenth century, since Latin was the church's own. Vernacular architecture means buildings put up in the local way with local materials rather than by any architect.
1nounvernacularThe everyday language of ordinary people in a place.
“The poet wrote in the vernacular of the streets, not in polished literary English.”
vernacular is a language.
Latin vernaculus means domestic or native, from verna, a slave born in the household.
Latin
vernāculus — domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves
English, today
vernacular
Built from
From Latin vernāculus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA