Crossword clues for macaronic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, n.
A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
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.
Macaronian \Mac`a*ro"ni*an\, Macaronic \Mac`a*ron"ic\, a. [Cf. It. maccheronico, F. macaronique.]
Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, in reference to a form of verse consisting of vernacular words in a Latin context with Latin endings; applied loosely to verse in which two or more languages are jumbled together; from Modern Latin macaronicus (coined 1517 by Teofilo Folengo), from dialectal Italian maccarone (see macaroni), in reference to the mixture of words in the verse: "quoddam pulmentum farina, caseo, botiro compaginatum, grossum, rude, et rusticanum" [Folengo].
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context archaic English) jumbled, mixed 2 (context literature English) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages. n. 1 (context literature English) A work of macaronic character. 2 (context morphology English) A word consist of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
WordNet
adj. of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together; "macaronic verse"
Usage examples of "macaronic".
He told me that I had arrived just in time to go to a picnic got up by the Macaronic academicians for the next day, after a sitting of the academy in which every member was to recite something of his composition.