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Webster 1913 Edition
Macaronic
{
Macˊa-ro′ni-an
,Macˊa-ron′ic
, }Adj.
[Cf. It.
maccheronico
, F. macaronique
.] 1.
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
2.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic;
as,
. macaronic
poetryMacˊa-ron′ic
,Noun.
1.
A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2.
A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.
Webster 1828 Edition
Macaronic
MACARON'IC
,Adj.
1.
Consisting of a mixture or jumble of ill formed or ill connected words.MACARON'IC
,Noun.
Definition 2024
macaronic
macaronic
English
Alternative forms
- macaronick (obsolete)
Adjective
macaronic (comparative more macaronic, superlative most macaronic)
- (archaic) jumbled, mixed
- (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
Translations
written in a mixture of languages
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Noun
macaronic (plural macaronics)
- (literature) A work of macaronic character.
- (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
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word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin