different between machinate vs machinator

English

Etymology

From Latin machinatus, past participle of machinor (“to contrive, plan, devise, plot, scheme”), from machina (“a machine, contrivance, device, scheme”); see machine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæk?ne?t/, /?mæ??ne?t/

Verb

machinate (third-person singular simple present machinates, present participle machinating, simple past and past participle machinated)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To devise a plot or secret plan; to conspire.
   • 2011, Ian Douglas Robertson, Turtle Hawks

     Had she already managed to machinate a cushy job for her husband?

Related terms

• machine
• machination

See also

• plot
• conspire
• plan

Further reading

• machinate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• machinate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• anathemic

Latin

Participle

m?chin?te

1. vocative masculine singular of m?chin?tus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin m?chin?tor (“engineer, inventor”).

Noun

machinator (plural machinators)

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

Related terms

• machinate
• machination
• machinatrix

Anagrams

• achromatin, chromatian, marathonic

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ma?.k?i?na?.tor/, [mä?k???nä?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ma.ki?na.tor/, [m?ki?n??t??r]

Noun

m?chin?tor m (genitive m?chin?t?ris); third declension

1. engineer
2. inventor

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Verb

m?chin?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of m?chinor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of m?chinor

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, 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?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016