machinatio

Latin

Etymology

From māchinor (“contrive, design”) +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maː.kʰiˈnaː.ti.oː/, [mäːkʰɪˈnäːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.kiˈnat.t͡si.o/, [mäkiˈnät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

māchinātiō f (genitive māchinātiōnis); third declension

1. contrivance
2. machine, engine
3. machination, artifice

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	māchinātiō	māchinātiōnēs
Genitive	māchinātiōnis	māchinātiōnum
Dative	māchinātiōnī	māchinātiōnibus
Accusative	māchinātiōnem	māchinātiōnēs
Ablative	māchinātiōne	māchinātiōnibus
Vocative	māchinātiō	māchinātiōnēs

Related terms

• māchina
• māchinālis
• māchināmen
• māchināmentum
• māchinārius
• māchinātor
• māchinātrix
• māchinātus
• māchinor
• māchinōsus
• māchinula

Descendants

• → Catalan: maquinació
• → English: machination
• → French: machination
  • → Romanian: mașinație
• → Galician: maquinación
• → Italian: macchinazione
• → Occitan: maquinacion
• → Portuguese: maquinação
• → Romanian: mașinație
• → Spanish: maquinación

References

• “machinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “machinatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• machinatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.