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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. Morphological doublet of macinare, an inherited form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mak.kiˈna.re/
- Rhymes: -are
- Hyphenation: mac‧chi‧nà‧re
Verb
macchinàre (first-person singular present màcchino, first-person singular past historic macchinài, past participle macchinàto, auxiliary avére)
- to plot, to contrive, to machinate
- (poetic, rare) to machine
Conjugation
Further reading
- macchinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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