different between vehicular vs vernacular

English

Etymology

Presumably from vehicle +? -ar, although it could be related to French véhicule.

Pronunciation

• esp (US) IPA^(key): /vi?h?k.j?.l?(?)/
• IPA^(key): /vi??k.j?.l?(?)/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?(?)

Adjective

vehicular (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks.

2. Of or pertaining to a language that is used as a contact language between two groups who do not share a common native tongue nor a common culture.

   Latin was a vehicular language for natural philosophers and others from the late Renaissance to the late 18th century.

Derived terms

• vehicular homicide
• vehicular language

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /v?.i.ku?la/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /b?.i.ku?la/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ve.i.ku?la?/

Adjective

vehicular (masculine and feminine plural vehiculars)

1. vehicular

Related terms

• vehicle

Verb

vehicular (first-person singular present vehiculo, past participle vehiculat)

1. to vehicle, transmit

Conjugation

Spanish

Etymology

From vehículo +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beiku?la?/, [be.i.ku?la?]

Adjective

vehicular (plural vehiculares)

1. vehicular (of a vehicle)
2. vehicular (of a common language)

Verb

vehicular (first-person singular present vehiculo, first-person singular preterite vehiculé, past participle vehiculado)

1. to serve as a mediator

Conjugation

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