macaronic
English
Alternative forms
- macaronick (obsolete)
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file)
Adjective
macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)
- (archaic) jumbled, mixed
- (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
- (dated) Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
Translations
jumbled
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written in a mixture of languages
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Noun
macaronic (plural macaronics)
- (literature) A work of macaronic character.
- (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
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word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin
Anagrams
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