Example sentences for: macaronic

How can you use “macaronic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Some elements bear macaronic labels: one which has a name from Greek but a symbol from Latin is antimony (refined as early as 900 C.E. and used, during the Middle Ages, as a powerful precursor to Ex-Lax.

  • The impulse in this book is macaronic hybrid, adhocist, ecumenical, miscegenating.

  • Perhaps it was formed originaly as a macaronic phrase by students, because of its meter; its earliest OED citation is in the 16th century, when the study of Horace would undoubtedly have been part of a scholar's curriculum (including the memorizing of many of the odes).

  • macaronic Does not refer to pasta; it is a text which is half Latin and half vernacular.

  • (The computer age term, “spaghetti code,” derives from the same pasta-related idea as macaronic, but more obviously so.)


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