macaronic

adj.

1. Of or containing a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words or with vernacular words given Latinate endings: macaronic verse.
2. Of or involving a mixture of two or more languages.

[New Latin macaronicus, from Italian maccheronea, macaronic verse, after Maccharonea, title of a work containing such verse by Tifi Odasi, 15th-century Italian author, from maccherone, maccaroni, course food.]

macaronic mac'a·ron'ic n.

1) characterized by a mixture of vernacular words with Latin words
2) characterized by a mixture of two languages

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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or containing a mixture of Latin words and vernacular words jumbled together
  Pertains to nouns: Latin (meaning #1), vernacular (meaning #2)

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