machina

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʃi.na/
• Homophones: machinas, machinât

machina

1. third-person singular past historic of machiner

machina f (plural machine)

1. (archaic or dialectal) Alternative form of macchina

Borrowed from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́, “machine, tool”) (compare Attic Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ)), an early borrowing, considering the vowel reduction of unstressed /a/ to /ĭ/.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.kʰi.na/, [ˈmäːkʰɪnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ki.na/, [ˈmäːkinä]

māchina f (genitive māchinae); first declension

1. machine
   • specifically, a war machine, military engine, siege engine
     • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 2.45–48:

       “Aut hoc inclūsī lignō occultantur Achīvī,
       aut haec in nostrōs fabricāta est māchina mūrōs,
       īnspectūra domōs ventūraque dēsuper urbī,
       aut aliquis latet error [...].”

       “Either the Grecian [warriors], having enclosed [themselves] in this wood[en horse], are hiding [there], or else they have built a [war] machine [for use] against our walls, to watch [our] homes and reach [our] city from above, or it conceals some other deception [...].” – Laocoön
       (See: Roman siege engines.)

2. scheme, plan, machination
3. mill^[1]

First-declension noun.

• mechanismus

Learned borrowings:

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “machĭna”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 376

• “machina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “machina”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• machina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• machina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• machina in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Learned borrowing from Latin māchina, from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́). Doublet of maszyna (“machine”).

• IPA^(key): /maˈxi.na/

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• Rhymes: -ina
• Syllabification: ma‧chi‧na

machina f

1. heavy machinery
2. complex system
3. (archaic) machine

   Synonym: maszyna

• machina in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• machina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

machina f (plural machinas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1911) of máquina.