machina

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

machina

1. third-person singular past historic of machiner

From Doric Greek μᾱχανᾱ́ (mākhanā́, “machine, tool”); compare Attic Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ). This must be an early borrowing, because it displays vowel reduction of a to i.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.kʰi.na/, [ˈmaː.kʰɪ.na]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈma.ki.na/, [ˈmaː.ki.na]

māchina f (genitive māchinae); first declension

1. machine
2. scheme, plan, machination

First declension.

• deus ex māchinā
• māchinālis
• māchinārius

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• machina in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• machina in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• IPA^(key): /maˈxʲi.na/

machina f (diminutive maszyna)

1. heavy machinery
2. complex system
3. (archaic) machine

• maszyneria
• maszynka
• mechanik
• maszynowy

• machina in Polish dictionaries at PWN

machina f (plural machinas)

1. Obsolete spelling of máquina (used in Portugal until September 1911 and died out in Brazil during the 1920s).