【vulgar】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

替代形式(Alternative forms)

• (early modern English): vulgare

词源(Etymology)

Borrowed into Middle English from Latin vulgāris, from volgus, vulgus (“mob; common folk”), from Proto-Indo-European *wl̥k- (compare Welsh gwala (“plenty, sufficiency”), Ancient Greek ἁλία (halía, “assembly”) εἰλέω (eiléō, “to compress”), Old Church Slavonic великъ (velikŭ, “great”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡə/
• (US) enPR: vŭlʹgər, IPA^(key): /ˈvʌl.ɡɚ/

• Audio (US)

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar (comparative more vulgar or vulgarer, superlative most vulgar or vulgarest)

1. Debased, uncouth, distasteful, obscene.

   vulgar language

   vulgar words

   a truly vulgar showing of affection

   vulgar and highly distressing scenes

   • 1551, James A.H. Murray, editor, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society.‎^[1], volume 1, Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 1888, Part 1, page 217:

     Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.

   • The construction worker made a vulgar suggestion to the girls walking down the street.
2. (classical sense) Having to do with ordinary, common people.
   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of Dr. Hammond:

     It might be more useful to the English reader […] to write in our vulgar language.

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class.

   • 1860, G. Syffarth, "A Remarkable Seal in Dr. Abbott's Museum at New York", Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, age 265

     Further, the same sacred name in other monuments precedes the vulgar name of King Takellothis, the sixth of the XXII. Dyn., as we have seen.

3. (especially taxonomy) Common, usual; of the typical kind.

   the vulgar bush brown, Bicyclus vulgaris

   • 1869, Richard Francis Burton, The Highlands of the Brazil, page 85:

     A vulture (V. aura), probably the Acabiry first described by Azara, is here called […] the hunter. It resembles in form the vulgar bird, but it flies high. The head is red, and the wings are black with silver lining, like the noble Bateleur of Africa.

同义词(Synonyms)

• (obscene): inappropriate, obscene, debased, uncouth, offensive, ignoble, mean, profane
• (ordinary): common, ordinary, popular

衍生词(Derived terms)

• (obscene): vulgarity, vulgarian
• (ordinary): vulgar fraction, vulgate, Vulgate
• vulgar fraction
• Vulgar Latin
• Vulgar Era

翻译(Translations)

名词(Noun)

vulgar (plural vulgars)

1. (classicism) A common, ordinary person.
   • 2016, Evan Gottlieb, Juliet Shields, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1660-1830

     Popular antiquarian writings […] frequently focused on the regional vulgars' superstitious beliefs regarding the dead and their ongoing presence—such as popular funeral rites or the vulgars' fear of church yards.

2. (collective) The common people.
3. The vernacular tongue or common language of a country.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies; Published according to the True Originall Copies, London, act 5, scene 1, page 204, Internet Shakespeare Editions:

     Therefore you Clowne, abandon: which is in the vulgar, leaue the societie: which in the boorish, is companie, of this female: which in the common, is woman: which together, is, abandon the society of this Female, […]

     (Or in a modern form: Therefore, you clown, abandon—which is in the vulgar, “leave”—the society—which in the boorish is “company”—of this female—which in the common is “woman”—which together is: abandon the society of this female,[…])

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Catalan

词源(Etymology)

From Latin vulgāris.

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar (masculine and feminine plural vulgars)

1. vulgar

衍生词(Derived terms)

• vulgarment

关联词(Related terms)

• vulgaritat

查看更多(Further reading)

• “vulgar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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Galician

词源(Etymology)

From Latin vulgāris.

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar m or f (plural vulgares)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished
3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical
4. simple, unintelligent

同义词(Synonyms)

• (ordinary): prosaico
• (popular): común, popular

反义词(Antonyms)

• (popular): científico, técnico

关联词(Related terms)

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

查看更多(Further reading)

• “vulgar” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

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Portuguese

词源(Etymology)

From Latin vulgāris.

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vuɫ.ˈɣaɾ/
• Hyphenation: vul‧gar

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar (plural vulgares, comparable)

1. common to the people, vulgar
2. ordinary, undistinguished

   Synonym: prosaico

3. popular, commonly understood, as opposed to scientific or technical

   Synonyms: comum, popular

4. simple, unintelligent

反义词(Antonyms)

• (popular): científico, técnico

关联词(Related terms)

• vulgaridade
• vulgarismo
• vulgo

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Romanian

词源(Etymology)

Borrowed from French vulgaire, Latin vulgaris.

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /vulˈɡar/

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar m or n (feminine singular vulgară, masculine plural vulgari, feminine and neuter plural vulgare)

1. vulgar

变化形式(Declension)

同义词(Synonyms)

• grosolan
• ordinar
• comun

关联词(Related terms)

• vulg

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Spanish

词源(Etymology)

From Latin vulgāris.

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /bulˈɡaɾ/

形容词(Adjective)

vulgar (plural vulgares)

1. vulgar

衍生词(Derived terms)

关联词(Related terms)

• vulgo
• vulgaridad

查看更多(Further reading)

• “vulgar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.