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macaronically

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mac⋅a⋅ron⋅ic

  [mak-uh-ron-ik]
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–adjective
1. composed of or characterized by Latin words mixed with vernacular words or non-Latin words given Latin endings.
2. composed of a mixture of languages.
3. mixed; jumbled.
–noun
4. macaronics, macaronic language.
5. a macaronic verse or other piece of writing.
Origin:
1605–15; < ML macarōnicus < dial. It maccarone macaroni + L -icus -ic

Related forms:
mac⋅a⋅ron⋅i⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
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Word Origin & History

macaronic 
1611, form of verse consisting of vernacular words in a Latin context with Latin endings; applied loosely to verse in which two or more languages are jumbled together; from Mod.L. macaronicus (coined 1517 by Teofilo Folengo), from It. dial. maccarone (see macaroni), in allusion to the mixture of words in the verse: "quoddam pulmentum farina, caseo, botiro compaginatum, grossum, rude, et rusticanum" [Folengo].
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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