Italian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin māchināre (mill, grind), a verb based on Latin māchina (device, mill), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. Compare Venetian masnar~maxenar, Friulian masanâ, Dalmatian macnur. Morphological doublet of macchinare, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ma.t͡ʃiˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ci‧nà‧re

Verb

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macinàre (first-person singular present màcino, first-person singular past historic macinài, past participle macinàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to grind or mill
  2. to mince (meat)
  3. (rare) to beat up
    Synonym: malmenare
  4. to carry out an activity at a sustained or rapid pace
    macinare chilometri
    to travel long stretches of road (lit. to carry out kilometers)
    macinare idiozieto trot out nonsense
  5. to ponder deeply
    macinare un'ideato ponder an idea
  6. to squander or waste
    macina tanti soldi dopo averne guadagnati
    he wastes a lot of the money he earns

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • macinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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