Definitions for macaronic

macaronic mac·a·ron·ic

Spelling: [mak-uh-ron-ik]
IPA: /ˌmæk əˈrɒn ɪk/

Macaronic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 376 anagrams from letters in macaronic (aaccimnor).

Definitions for macaronic

noun

  1. macaronics, macaronic language.
  2. a macaronic verse or other piece of writing.

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.

Origin of macaronic

1605-15; Medieval Latin macarōnicus dialectal Italian maccarone macaroni + Latin -icus -ic; from the association of macaroni as peasant foo

Examples for macaronic

He himself observed due measure in it; but in the hands of his successors it degraded French to an almost macaronic jargon.

Such was the man who has justly earned the reputation of being the first of macaronic poets.

Four Italian writers in macaronic verse are known to have lived before the year 1500.

macaronic Poetry creates but little interest in these days, though there are still students who appreciate some of its qualities.

For humorous but vivid pictures of a professor's lecture-room, see the macaronic poems of Odassi and Fossa quoted by me in vol.

I told him in three languages—in Italian, in French, and in Latin (macaronic, of course); but it was dense darkness to him.

We may take a single example of the English macaronic from this poem, which will not need an English translation.

Folengo in Italy and Arena in France are considered as the macaronic classics.

Freakish books, like macaronic poetry, written in a medley of languages, are curious.

What we may term the filth, indeed, forms a large proportion of the Italian macaronic poetry.

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