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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
poetry
.

Macˊa-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.
Pertaining to or like a macaroni; empty; trifling; vain; affected.
1.
Consisting of a mixture or jumble of ill formed or ill connected words.

MACARON'IC

,
Noun.
A kind of burlesque poetry, in which native words are made to end in Latin terminations, or Latin words are modernized.

Definition 2024


macaronic

macaronic

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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.

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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.

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