maquinar

Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchinā (“device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [mə.kiˈna]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ma.kiˈnaɾ]

maquinar (first-person singular present maquino, first-person singular preterite maquiní, past participle maquinat)

1. (transitive) to plot, scheme

   Synonyms: ginyar, ordir, tramar

• maquinador
• maquinament

• màquina
• maquinació

• “maquinar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek.

• Hyphenation: ma‧qui‧nar

maquinar (first-person singular present maquino, first-person singular preterite maquinei, past participle maquinado)

1. (transitive) to engineer (to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile)

• máquina

• “maquinar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “maquinar”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. Morphological doublet of maznar, an inherited form.

• IPA^(key): /makiˈnaɾ/ [ma.kiˈnaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: ma‧qui‧nar

maquinar (first-person singular present maquino, first-person singular preterite maquiné, past participle maquinado)

1. to machinate, plot

• “maquinar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025