Meaning

3 senses

  1. A work of macaronic character.

  2. A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.

  3. A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.

    Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. I've heard Japanese and Koreans make bilingual puns. It's designated as "macaronic language."

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Translations

4 languages

Origin

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“c

From New Latin, 1517 coinage, macaronicus, from Italian (Neapolitan dialect) maccarone (“coarse dumpling”).

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Forms

plural: macaronics

Synonyms

2 synonyms
hybridB2etymological hybrid

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
macaquemacaronmacaronimacaroonmacawmace

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