different between chatty vs vernacular

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?t?æti/, [?t?æ?i]
• Rhymes: -æti

Etymology 1

From chat (“informal conversation”) +? -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (informal) Of a person, chatting a lot or fond of chatting.
2. (informal) Of a text or speech, expressed in a conversational style.
3. (computing) Supplying more information than necessary; verbose.

   Chatty error messages may help attackers to compromise your server.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:talkative

Translations

Etymology 2

From chat (“louse”) +? -y.

Adjective

chatty (comparative chattier, superlative chattiest)

1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, dated or dialect) Infested with lice; or, (figuratively) dirty, worn or of poor quality; lousy.
   • 2014, Ian Robson, “Fenham residents campaign against plans to replace wall with wooden fence”, The Chronicle:

     Now there are plans to put up a cheap and chatty wooden fence which will not provide anything like the security the old wall did and it will not have the same character.

Etymology 3

Noun

chatty (plural chatties)

1. Alternative form of chattee (“Indian clay pot”)

English

Etymology

From Latin vern?culus (“domestic, indigenous, of or pertaining to home-born slaves”), from verna (“a native, a home-born slave (one born in his master's house)”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /v??nækj?l?/, /v??nækj?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /v??nækj?l?/
• Rhymes: -ækj?l?(?)
• Hyphenation: ver?nac?u?lar

Noun

vernacular (plural vernaculars)

1. The language of a people or a national language.

   A vernacular of the United States is English.

2. Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

   Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.

3. Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.

   For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.

4. A language lacking standardization or a written form.
5. Indigenous spoken language, as distinct from a literary or liturgical language such as Ecclesiastical Latin.

   Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular.

Synonyms

• (language unique to a group): dialect, idiom, argot, jargon, slang
• (language of a people): vulgate

Antonyms

• (national language): lingua franca, link language, vehicular language

Translations

Adjective

vernacular (comparative more vernacular, superlative most vernacular)

1. Of or pertaining to everyday language, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.
2. Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.

   a vernacular disease

3. (architecture) Of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported.
4. (art) Connected to a collective memory; not imported.

Synonyms

• (of everyday language): common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar, colloquial
• (architecture): folk

Derived terms

• neo-vernacular
• vernacularism
• vernacularist

Translations

Further reading

• vernacular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• vernacular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• vernacular at OneLook Dictionary Search

Portuguese

Adjective

vernacular m or f (plural vernaculares, comparable)

1. vernacular (pertaining to everyday language)

   Synonym: vernáculo