macaronic

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English

WOTD – 23 May 2010
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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.
    Synonyms: buckish, dandyish; see also Thesaurus:foppish

Translations

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.
    Hyponym: etymological hybrid
    1. Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French macaronique. By surface analysis, macaroană +‎ -ic.

Adjective

macaronic m or n (feminine singular macaronică, masculine plural macaronici, feminine and neuter plural macaronice)

  1. macaronic

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite macaronic macaronică macaronici macaronice
definite macaronicul macaronica macaronicii macaronicele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite macaronic macaronice macaronici macaronice
definite macaronicului macaronicei macaronicilor macaronicelor
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