Vernacular vs Venal - What's the difference?
vernacular | venal |
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
(archaic) For sale; available for purchase.
Of a position, privilege etc.: available for purchase rather than assigned on merit.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 140:
Capable of being bought (of a person); willing to take bribes.
Corrupt, mercenary.
* 1785 , The Times , 9 Feb 1785, page 1, column C:
As adjectives the difference between vernacular and venal
is that vernacular is of or pertaining to everyday language while venal is available for a price; venal.As a noun vernacular
is the language of a people or a national language.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
Synonyms
* (of everyday language) common, everyday, indigenous, ordinary, vulgar * (architecture) folkExternal links
* * * English terms derived from Etruscan ----venal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , compare vendAdjective
(en adjective)- Thus, regimental commands in the army were – as with the judiciary or the financial bureaucracy – venal posts, which were purchased, bequeathed and sold among the nobility.
- Though there is a disposition in mankind, to declaim against the corruption and peculation of the present times, as being more venal than formerly; yet, if we look back to different periods, we shall find statesmen and politicians, as selfish and corrupt, (...) as those who have lately figured on the political stage.