Autochthonous vs Vernacular - What's the difference?
autochthonous | vernacular |
Native to the place where found; indigenous.
* 1889 , Justin Winsor, Narrative and Critical History of America , Vol. I, page 375:
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(biology, medicine) Originating where found; found where it originates.
* 1983 , Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey , volume 80, page 538:
(geology) Buried in place, especially of a fossil preserved in its life position without disturbance or disarticulation.
* 1992 , Anna K. Behrensmeyer, et al., Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time , page 83:
The language of a people or a national language.
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Of or pertaining to everyday language.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
(art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
As adjectives the difference between autochthonous and vernacular
is that autochthonous is native to the place where found; indigenous while vernacular is of or pertaining to everyday language.As a noun vernacular is
the language of a people or a national language.autochthonous
English
Adjective
(-)- Two of the most celebrated of the evolutionists reject the autochthonous view, for Darwin's Descent of Man'' and Haeckel's ''Hist. of Creation consider the American man an emigrant from the old world, whatever way the race may have developed
- When, in 1858, Joseph Lister amputated the right leg of a six-year-old girl suffering from gangrene, he noted that the autochthonous blood clot extended down the anterior tibial artery as far as the commencement of the gangrene.
- Death and burial may be simultaneous, resulting in a preserved snapshot of an autochthonous assemblage that may be compared directly with present day ecosystems.
Synonyms
* (native to the place where found) aboriginal, autochthonic, indigenous, nativeAntonyms
* (sense) allochthonousDerived terms
* autochthonously * parautochthonousvernacular
English
(wikipedia vernacular)Noun
(en noun)- ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .
Synonyms
* (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slangAntonyms
* (national language) lingua francaAdjective
(en adjective)- a vernacular disease