macaronic
English
WOTD – 23 May 2010
Alternative forms
- macaronick (obsolete)
Etymology
From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/
Audio (US) (file)
Translations
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
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