Nomenclature vs Vernacular - What's the difference?
nomenclature | vernacular |
(obsolete) A name.
A set of names or terms.
A set of rules used for forming the names or terms in a particular field of arts or sciences.
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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 nouns the difference between nomenclature and vernacular
is that nomenclature is a name while vernacular is the language of a people or a national language.As an adjective vernacular is
of or pertaining to everyday language.nomenclature
English
(wikipedia nomenclature)Noun
- It is also pertinent to note that the current obvious decline in work on holarctic hepatics most surely reflects a current obsession with cataloging and with nomenclature of the organisms—as divorced from their study as living entities.
Synonyms
* terminologyDerived terms
* zoological nomenclatureSee also
* taxonomyExternal links
* * ----vernacular
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