| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| macaronic |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mac·a·ron·ic |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  m k  -r n  k |
| ADJECTIVE: | 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. | | ETYMOLOGY: | New Latin macaronicus, from Italian maccheronea, macaronic verse, after Maccharonea, title of a work containing such verse by Tifi Odasi, 15th-century Italian author, from maccherone, maccaroni, course food. | | OTHER FORMS: | maca·ronic —NOUN
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