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vernacular的词源解释,vernacular来源

vernacular(adj.)

大约1600年,“本土的”,源自拉丁语 vernaculus “本地的,土著的; 与家庭出生的奴隶有关”,源自 verna “家庭出生的奴隶,本地人”,这是一个源自伊特鲁里亚语的词。在英语中,用于指代拉丁语 vernacula vocabula,表示语言。作为名词,“某地的本土语言”,始于1706年。

For human speech is after all a democratic product, the creation, not of scholars and grammarians, but of unschooled and unlettered people. Scholars and men of education may cultivate and enrich it, and make it flower into the beauty of a literary language; but its rarest blooms are grafted on a wild stock, and its roots are deep-buried in the common soil. [Logan Pearsall Smith, "Words and Idioms," 1925]
因为人类的语言毕竟是民主的产物,不是学者和语法学家的创造,而是未受教育和未受文化熏陶的人的创造。学者和受过教育的人可以培养和丰富它,并使其开花成为文学语言的美丽; 但它最珍贵的花朵是嫁接在野生的树干上的,它的根深深地埋在普通的土壤中。[洛根·皮尔萨尔·史密斯,“词语和习语”,1925年]

该词起源时间:约1600年