different between vernacular vs vulgate

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

English

Etymology

From Latin vulg?tus, past participle of vulg? (“publish, make common, cheapen”).

Pronunciation

• (adjective, noun) IPA^(key): /?v?l?e?t/, /?v?l??t/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /v?l??e?t/

Adjective

vulgate (comparative more vulgate, superlative most vulgate)

1. (archaic) Made common, published for common use, vulgarized.
2. (of a text, especially the Bible, not comparable) In or pertaining to the common version or edition.

Noun

vulgate (plural vulgates)

1. The vernacular language of a people.
   • 1988, Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Journal, page 96:

     The linguistic and socio-historical evidence herein examined suggests that the development of Coptic occurred in Ptolemaic Egypt, not only as a spoken vulgate in the Delta, but as a script produced through […]

   • 1995, William A. Katz, Dahl's history of the book, page 89:

     They might speak the local vulgate among themselves, and certainly among those they were trying to reach outside of the monastery, but read and spoke Latin for religious and official events.

   • 2004, Cornelius Cosgrove and Nancy Barta-Smith, In Search of Eloquence, page 187:

     English sentences were often described in ways more appropriate to Latin than to the spoken vulgate (Lindemann 78-79).

   • 2011, Abbas Amanat and Michael Ezekiel Gasper, Is There a Middle East?, page 153:

     Originally destined for settlements throughout India, these documents exhibit a wide range of rhetorical conventions and writing styles, combining in varying proportions the local idiom, the spoken vulgate, and the classical form of their writers' language.

2. (of a text, especially the Bible) A common version or edition.

Verb

vulgate (third-person singular simple present vulgates, present participle vulgating, simple past and past participle vulgated)

1. To publish, spread, promulgate to the people.

Related terms

• vulgation

References

• “vulgate”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

French

Noun

vulgate f (plural vulgates)

1. Common and widespread popular saying

Further reading

• “vulgate” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

vulgate f

1. plural of vulgata

Latin

Verb

vulg?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of vulg?

References

• vulgate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vulgate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette