macaronic

  1. Adjective.  (archaic) jumbled, mixed.
  2. Adjective.  (context, literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
  3. Noun.  (literature) A work of macaronic character.
  4. 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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