macaronic

IPA: mækɝˈɑnɪk

(literature) A work of macaronic character.
(linguistic morphology) A word consisting of a mix of words of two or more languages.
Such a word that mixes Latin morphemes with non-Latin ones.

Examples of "macaronic" in Sentences

The concept of a macaronic verse was new for me as well as for Matt.
It was what is called a macaronic poempart English, part Latinand was an elegy on the death of somebody or other.
Vittorio Vettori (d. 1763), and Folengo, the first of the so-called macaronic writers; the jurist Piacentino (twelfth century),
I cannot express in words how disspointed I was to find that “macaronic” did not refer to poetry sung to the tune of “Macarena”
If the macaronic inclusion of ecclesiastical Latin is too sober for your holiday, you can always set the Wayback Machine to last year's wassails.
Richard, if you wish to post my macaronic exercise, I have no objections whatsoever, with an understanding that I have no claim of its being a good poetry.
Parceque librum non a rendu "is the kind of macaronic French and Latin which schoolboys are accustomed to write under a sketch of the borrower expiating his offences on the gallows.
In the course of the conversation one of the PT crew composed a two-stanza poem in macaronic style, in which the lines of the poem are in different languages but the meter and rhyme scheme are preserved through the language shifts.