macaronic

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/

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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

Spanish: bastardo (es), espurio (es)

written in a mixture of languages

Esperanto: multlingva French: macaronique (fr) Italian: maccheronico (it) m

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

Spanish: galimatías (es), algarabía (es), guirigay (es)

word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin

Anagrams

• carcinoma, maccaroni