indigenous Copy link Outline 1. vernācŭlus (home-bred, home-grown)2. indĭgĕna (usu. only of human beings) • indigenous: 1. vernācŭlus (home-bred, home-grown): birds migratory or i., volucres advenae, v., Varr. R. R. 3, 5, ad med.: vines peculiar and i. to Italy, vites peculiares atque v. Italiae, Plin. 14, 2, 4, § 25. 2. indĭgĕna (usu. only of human beings): the i. Latins, i. Latini, Virg. Aen. 12, 823: of wine, indigena vinum, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 72.