máquina
Asturian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhaná).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
máquina f (plural máquines)
Derived terms edit
- máquina d'escribir (“typewriter”)
Galician edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhaná).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
máquina f (plural máquinas)
Derived terms edit
Portuguese edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhaná), Doric spelling of μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, engine, contrivance, device”), from μῆχος (mêkhos, “means”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂gh- (“to be able to, to help; power, sorcerer”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: má‧qui‧na
Noun edit
máquina f (plural máquinas)
- machine
- mechanical or electrical device
- Synonyms: dispositivo, engenho
- computer
- (figurative) person or organisation that seemingly acts like a machine, being particularly efficient, single-minded, or unemotional
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), from Ancient Greek μαχανά (makhaná). Doublet of mashina.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
máquina f (plural máquinas)
Hyponyms edit
- máquina autoventa
- máquina de afeitar
- máquina de billetes
- máquina de café
- máquina de caminar
- máquina de cortar grama (“lawnmower”) (Puerto Rico)
- máquina de cortar zacate (“lawnmower”) (regionally used in northern Mexico and Texas)
- máquina de coser
- máquina de escribir
- máquina de humo
- máquina de la verdad
- máquina de lavado a presión
- máquina de lavado a presión
- máquina de Turing
- máquina de vapor
- máquina del tiempo
- máquina diferencial
- máquina diferencial
- máquina escalera (“climbing machine, stepmill”)
- máquina expendedora
- máquina herramienta
- máquina perforadora
- máquina simple
- máquina virtual
Derived terms edit
- a máquina (“machine-made; typed”)
- a toda máquina
- código máquina (“machine code”)
- coser a máquina (“to machine sew”)
- escribir a máquina (“to typewrite”)
- lavar a máquina (“to machine wash”)
- lenguaje de máquina
- nanomáquina
- sala de máquinas
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Descendants edit
- → Basque: makina
- → Cebuano: makina
- → Hiligaynon: makina
- → Tagalog: makina
- → Tetelcingo Nahuatl: möcna, mö́qui̱na
Further reading edit
- “máquina”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014