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verna, ae, comm. [root vas, to dwell; Sanscr. vāstu, house; Gr. ἄστυ, city], a slave born in his master’s house, a homeborn slave.

  1. I. Lit.: vernas alere, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 104; id. Am. 1, 1, 24; Just. 38, 6, 7; Val. Max. 3, 4, 3; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15, 2; Hor. Epod. 2, 65; id. S. 1, 2, 117; 2, 6, 66.
    In gen. fem., Inscr. Orell. 1320.
    Such slaves were trained up as buffoons or jesters, Mart. 1, 42, 2; cf. Sen. Prov. 1, 6; and v. vernilitas.
    As a term of abuse, Plaut. Am. 4, 2, 13.
  2. II. Transf., a native: de plebe Remi Numaeque verna, Jucundus, etc., Mart. 10, 76, 4; cf.: Romanos vernas appellabant, id est ibidem natos, Fest. p. 372 Müll.
    Hence,
    1. B. Adj.: ver-nus, a, um, native: apri, Mart. 1, 50, 24: lupi, id. 10, 30, 21: tuberes, id. 13, 43, 2: liber, i. e. written in Rome, id. 3, 1, 6.

vernācŭlus, a, um, adj. [verna].

  1. I. (Acc. to verna, I.) Of or belonging to homeborn slaves.
    1. A. Adj.: multitudo, the rabble of slaves, Tac. A. 1, 31; so, plebs, Tert. Apol. 35.
    2. B. Substt.: vernācŭli, ōrum, m. (acc. to verna, I.), buffoons, jesters (postAug. and rare), Mart. 10, 3, 1; Suet. Vit. 14.
      1. 2. vernācŭla, ae, f., a female household slave (late Lat.), Mart. Cap. 8, § 804: filius quem susceperat ex vernaculā, Ambros. Abrah. 1, 7, 65.
  2. II. (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, id. Verr. 2, 3, 61, § 141; cf. consilium, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 105.
    1. B. Natural, common (late Lat.): paupertas olim philosophiae vernacula est, App. Mag. 18, p. 285, 13.

vernālis, e, adj. [ver], of or belonging to spring, vernal: horae, Manil. 3, 258: facies terrae, Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 25.

vernātĭo, ōnis, f. [verno], the sloughing or shedding of the skin of snakes.

  1. I. Lit., Plin. 29, 5, 32, § 101; 30, 3 8, § 24.
  2. II. Transf., concr., the slough cast off by a snake, Plin. 29, 6, 35, § 11.