About The Word Macaronic
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Macaronic
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What's The Definition Of Macaronic?
[adj] of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Macaronic: Related Terms | Find terms related to Macaronic: See Also | Macaronic In Webster's Dictionary \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n.
1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular
words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with
genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding
Latin terminations to other roots.
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