mécanique

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

mechanical (of or pertaining to a machine)

Noun

mechanics

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/me.ka.nik/

Etimologie (Engels)

Learned borrowing from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines”), itself borrowed from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”) (whence machine).