machina

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

machina

1. third-person singular past historic of machiner

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ki.na/
• Rhymes: -akina
• Hyphenation: mà‧chi‧na,
• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ɡi.na/
• Rhymes: -aɡina

machina f (plural machine)

1. (archaic or dialectal, Romanesco) alternative form of macchina

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.kʰɪ.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmaː.ki.na]

māchina f (genitive māchinae); first declension

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

     “Aut hōc 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.)

3. scaffold
4. platform
5. scheme, plan, machination
6. mill^[1]

First-declension noun.

• mechanismus

• 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, 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 (16 July 2016 (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 (mākhănā́). 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 (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of máquina