vernaculous

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adjective

vernacular (of everyday language)

OriginLatin vernaculus →
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Meanings

adjectivevernaculous (comparative more vernaculous, superlative most vernaculous)

comparative more vernaculous · superlative most vernaculous

  1. obsoletevernacular (of everyday language)

    their vernaculous and mother tongues

    c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC
  2. Latinismobsoleterarescoffing; scurrilous (containing coarse language)

    subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator

    1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page)

Origin

  1. Latinvernaculus
  2. Englishvernaculous

Latin vernaculus. See vernacular.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

cavernulous
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APA

vernaculous. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculous

MLA

“vernaculous.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculous. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “vernaculous,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/vernaculous.

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