macaronic

English

WOTD – 23 May 2010

Alternative forms

• maccaronic
• macaronick (obsolete)

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.

Translations

jumbled

• French: bâtard (fr)
• Italian: imbastardito (it) m
• Spanish: bastardo (es), espurio (es)

written in a mixture of languages

• Arabic: مُلَمَّع m (mulammaʕ)
• Esperanto: multlingva
• French: macaronique (fr)
• Italian: maccheronico (it) m
• Portuguese: macarrónico (Portugal), macarrônico (Brazil)
• Russian: макарони́ческий (ru) (makaroníčeskij)
• Spanish: macarrónico (es)

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.

Translations

macaronic work

• French: galimatias (fr), charabia (fr), amphigouri (fr)
• Italian: maccheronata f
• Spanish: galimatías (es), algarabía (es), guirigay (es)

word which is mix of Latin and non-Latin

Anagrams

• carcinoma, maccaroni

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