macaronic

English

WOTD – 23 May 2010

Alternative forms

• macaronick (obsolete)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] , 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /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.
3. (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.

Translations

jumbled

• French: bâtard (fr)
• Italian: imbastardito (it) m
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• Spanish: bastardo (es), espurio (es)

written in a mixture of languages

• Esperanto: multlingva
• French: macaronique (fr)
• Italian: maccheronico (it) m
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• Portuguese: macarrónico (Portugal), macarrônico (Brazil)
• Russian: макарони́ческий (ru) (makaroníčeskij)
• Spanish: macarrónico (es)

Noun

macaronic (plural macaronics)

1. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
2. (linguistic morphology) 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)
• Italian: maccheronata f
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• Spanish: galimatías (es), algarabía (es), guirigay (es)

word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin

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Anagrams

• carcinoma, maccaroni