machinator

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māchinātor (“engineer, inventor”).

Noun

machinator (plural machinators)

  1. One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for machinator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /maː.kʰiˈnaː.tor/, [mäːkʰɪˈnäːt̪ɔr]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ma.kiˈna.tor/, [mäkiˈnäːt̪or]

Noun

māchinātor m (genitive māchinātōris); third declension

  1. engineer
  2. inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative māchinātor māchinātōrēs
Genitive māchinātōris māchinātōrum
Dative māchinātōrī māchinātōribus
Accusative māchinātōrem māchinātōrēs
Ablative māchinātōre māchinātōribus
Vocative māchinātor māchinātōrēs

Verb

māchinātor

  1. second/third-person singular future active imperative of māchinor

References
  • “machinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “machinator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • machinator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • machinator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • machinator in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
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