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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin māchinātor (“engineer, inventor”).
Noun
machinator (plural machinators)
- One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
References
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From māchinor + -tor.
Pronunciation
Noun
māchinātor m (genitive māchinātōris); third declension
- engineer
- inventor
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Verb
māchinātor
- 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016