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  4. vulgaire

vulgaire

/vylɡɛʁ/
vulgar or common

Évite les mots vulgaires devant les enfants.

Avoid vulgar words in front of children.


general

crude or lacking good manners in speech

Son langage est parfois vulgaire.

His language is sometimes vulgar.

Cette blague vulgaire na fait rire personne.

That vulgar joke made nobody laugh.

formal

common or ordinary, without distinction

Ce nest quun simple mortel vulgaire.

He is just an ordinary mortal.

Le sens vulgaire du mot diffère du sens savant.

The common sense of the word differs from the learned sense.

literary

relating to the common people in old usage

Le latin vulgaire a donné le français.

Vulgar Latin gave birth to French.

Word Origin

From Latin vulgaris, of the crowd, from vulgus.

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