machinatio Latin · revision 34281

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

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+ ==Pronunciation==

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

+ * Ecclesiastical: [ma.kiˈnat.t͡si.o]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''māchinātiō''' ''f'' (genitive māchinātiōnis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|māchinor|-tiō|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 writes that some animals have been given ''machinatio quaedam atque sollertia'', a power of contrivance and skill.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant the art of making contrivances, then a piece of machinery or a mechanism: Cicero speaks of something moved by a mechanism, such as a sphere, and Caesar uses it of an engine of war.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) The TLL finds it in Cicero, Caesar, Sallust, Livy and later prose but not in the poets.^(TLL) The transferred sense, a device or [[m|en|machination]], appears in Ulpian, of a scheme to deceive another.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Medieval Latin it meant a ruse or fraud, and also a bequest.^(Niermeyer 1976) English took ''machination'' in the late 15th century, from Old French and directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of the power of contrivance and of a mechanism.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 50 BC – Caesar uses it of an engine of war.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian uses it of a scheme to deceive.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * late 15th century – English borrows it as [[m|en|machination]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # The art of making [[m|en|machine|alt=machines]] or contrivances.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ # A piece of machinery, [[m|en|mechanism]], [[m|en|contrivance]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(military)'' An engine of war.^(OLD 2012)

+ # A device, artifice; a [[m|en|machination]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' A ruse, fraud; a [[m|en|bequest]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[māchina]]

+ * [[māchinālis]]

+ * [[māchināmen]]

+ * [[māchināmentum]]

+ * [[māchinārius]]

+ * [[māchinātor]]

+ * [[māchinātrix]]

+ * [[māchinātus]]

+ * [[māchinor]]

+ * [[māchinōsus]]

+ * [[en|machination]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}