macaronic
- Adjective. (archaic) jumbled, mixed.
- Adjective. (context, literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
- Noun. (literature) A work of macaronic character.
- Noun. (context, morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages, one of which is Latin, or a non-Latin stem with a Latin ending.
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