machinator Latin · revision 34276

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=81–43 BC, Cicero|origins=grc μαχανά}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [maː.kʰɪˈnaː.tɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ma.kiˈnaː.tor]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''māchinātor''' ''m'' (genitive māchinātōris); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|māchinor|-tor|t1=to contrive]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) [[m|la|māchinor]] is from [[m|la|māchina|t=machine]], which was borrowed from [[grc|μαχανά|tr=mākhanā́]], the Doric form of [[m|grc|μηχανή|tr=mēkhanḗ]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler records it first in Cicero,^(Köbler 2010) who uses it of the contriver of a crime, calling one man the architect and contriver of everything, ''omnium architectum et machinatorem''.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant one who devises or builds machines, an engineer: Livy calls Archimedes an inventor and builder of engines of war, and Seneca speaks of engineers who devise stages that rise by themselves.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL) It also meant a contriver of plots or other events.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Medieval Latin from Britain it was used of a machinist or engineer in royal service, and of a deviser or schemer, usually in a bad sense;^(DMLBS) Bede speaks of contrivers of slander.^(DMLBS)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the contriver of a crime.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy calls Archimedes a builder of war engines.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca uses it of stage engineers.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # One who devises or builds [[m|en|machine|alt=machines]], an [[m|en|engineer]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(DMLBS)

+ # A [[m|en|contriver]] of plots or events, a schemer.^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}