verna — Lewis & Short
verna, ae, comm.root vas, to dwell; Sanscr. vāstu, house; Gr. a)/stu, city,
I a slave born in his master's house, a homeborn slave.
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.—
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,
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.