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Macaronic   Listen
noun
Macaronic  n.  
1.
A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2.
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.





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"Macaronic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Education commends this ingenious poem, written in seven languages—English, French, German, Greek, Latin, Spanish, and Italian—as one of the best specimens of Macaronic verse in existence, and worthy of ...
— A Handbook for Latin Clubs • Various


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