machinor Latin · revision 33881

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=grc μαχανά}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [ˈmaː.kʰɪ.nɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ˈmaː.ki.nor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''māchinor''' (present infinitive māchinārī, perfect active māchinātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|māchina|-or|t1=machine, contrivance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) The OLD and Wiktionary derive [[m|la|māchina]] from [[grc|μαχανά|tr=makhaná|t=machine, tool]], the Doric form beside Attic [[m|grc|μηχανή|tr=mēkhanḗ]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Saalfeld 1874) Wiktionary calls it a very early borrowing, since the unstressed ⟨a⟩ was reduced to ⟨i⟩.^(Wiktionary) The TLL compares the Greek verb [[m|grc|μηχανάομαι|tr=mēkhanáomai|t=to contrive]].^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus uses it first,^(Köbler 2010) in the ''Bacchides'', where a character says he will devise some machine to get gold from somewhere.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It means to contrive skilfully, invent, devise: Cicero says it is incredible with what care nature has devised things, speaks of him who devised these things, and says musicians devised two things for pleasure, verse and song.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012) Sallust uses the participle passively of the sound of thunder artificially produced when a statue of Victory placed a crown on a man's head.^(OLD 2012) More often it is to devise cunningly, to plot: Plautus' ''māchina'', and Sallust's evidence contrived by Publius Autronius.^(OLD 2012) Stelten gives "contrive, devise, plot, invent" for Church Latin.^(Stelten 1995) The English [[m|en|machinate]] comes from its participle or from ''machination''.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of devising a trick to get gold.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 86–34 BC – Sallust of artificial thunder and contrived evidence.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero of nature's contrivance.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)

+ * c. 1600 – [[m|en|machinate]] appears in English.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To [[m|en|devise]], [[m|en|invent]], contrive skilfully, design;^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) ''(perfect participle, passive)'' artificially produced.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # To devise cunningly, [[m|en|plot]], scheme.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Stelten 1995)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[māchināmen]]

+ * [[māchināmentum]]

+ * [[māchinātiō]]

+ * [[māchinātor]]

+ * [[māchinātrix]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[māchina]]

+ * [[māchinātus]]

+ * [[māchinō]]

+ * [[en|machinate]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}