macaronic

WOTD – 23 May 2010    

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Alternative forms

• macaronick (obsolete)

Etymology

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/

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Adjective

macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)

1. (archaic) jumbled, mixed
2. (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.

Translations

jumbled

• French: bâtard (fr)
• Spanish: bastardo (es), espurio (es)

written in a mixture of languages

• Esperanto: multlingva (eo)
• French: macaronique (fr)
• Spanish: macarrónico (es)

Noun

macaronic (plural macaronics)

1. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
2. (linguistics) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.

Translations

macaronic work

• French: galimatias (fr), charabia (fr), amphigouri (fr)
• Spanish: galimatías (es), algarabía (es), guirigay (es)

word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin

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