how to pronounce macaronic
/ˌmækəˈɹɑnɪk/
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macaronic is pronounced in four syllables
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meanings of macaronic
adjective:
- Like a macaroni or dandy; foppish, trifling, affected.
- Jumbled, mixed.
- Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more languages.
noun:
- A work of macaronic character.
- 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.
macaronic frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR
the word macaronic occurs in english on average 0 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
topics macaronic can be related to
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that macaronic can be often used in the following areas:
1) communication, information, and media;
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