(adjective) : vernācŭlus, a, um, verna.
* (Acc. to verna, I.) Of or belonging to homeborn slaves.
* Adj.: multitudo,the rabble of slaves,Tac. A. 1, 31; so, plebs,Tert. Apol. 35.
* (Acc. to verna, II.) Native, domestic, indigenous, vernacular, i. e. Roman (the class. signif. of the word): aquatilium vocabula partim sunt vernacula partim peregrina,Varr. L. L. 5, § 77 Müll.: volucres,id. R. R. 3, 5, 7: equi,Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 202: vites (with peculiares),id. 14, 2, 4, § 24: putatio,id. 17, 23, 35, § 208: gallinae,Col. 8, 2, 5: pecus,id. 7, 3, 13: imago antiquae et vernaculae festivitatis,Cic. Fam. 9, 15, 2: sapor,inborn, innate,id. Brut. 46, 172: crimen domesticum ac vernaculum,invented by the accuser himself,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 141; cf. consilium,Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 105.
* Vernācŭla, ae, f., a female household slave (late Lat.), Mart. Cap. 8, § 804: filius quem susceperat ex vernaculā,Ambros. Abrah. 1, 7, 65.
* Natural, common (late Lat.): paupertas olim philosophiae vernacula est,App. Mag. 18, p. 285, 13.