(vul′gāt) adjective
Common; popular; usual; generally accepted; in common use.
—noun
1. The vulgar tongue; colloquial everyday speech.
2. Any commonly accepted text. [<L vulgatus common, orig. pp. of vulgare make common <vulgus the common people]

(vul′gāt) noun
1. St. Jerome's Latin version of the Bible, now revised and used as the authorized version by the Roman Catholics. Jerome translated the Gospels into Latin, then the vernacular or vulgar tongue, about A.D. 383, the remaining New Testament somewhat later, and the Old Testament from the Hebrew between 390 and 405. The Sistine edition of the Vulgate, published under Pope Clement VIII in 1592–93, is the source of the modern revision of the Douai version ordered by Pius X in 1908.
—adjective Belonging or relating to the Vulgate. [<Med. L vulgata (editio) the popular (edition), fem. of L vulgatus common]