Dictionary entry

Vernacular

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Ver‐nac″u‐lar (?), a. [L. vernaculus born in one's house, native, fr. verna a slave born in his master's house, a native, probably akin to Skr. vas to dwell, E. was.] Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; — now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language. “A vernacular disease.” Harvey.

His skill in the vernacular dialect of the Celtic tongue. Fuller.

Which in our vernacular idiom may be thus interpreted. Pope.