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Macaronic

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Adjective

1. macaronic

of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together

Example Sentences:
'macaronic verse'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Macaronic

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adjective
1. 
(of verse) characterized by a mixture of vernacular words jumbled together with Latin words or Latinized words or with words from one or more other foreign languages
noun
2. (often plural)
macaronic verse

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Macaronic

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adjective
1. 
involving or characterized by a mixture of languages; esp., designating or of burlesque verse in which real or coined words from two or more languages are mixed, or words of a modern language are given Latin case endings and mixed with Latin words
noun
2. 
macaronic verse
usually used in pl.

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Macaronic

see synonyms of macaronic
adj.
1. Of or containing a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with vernacular words given Latinate endings: macaronic verse.
2. Of or involving a mixture of two or more languages.

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