Feminine

machine

Meaning

  1. machine, device
  2. (slang) machine (a person who is very efficient)

Frequency

B1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ma.ʃin/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Middle French machine, borrowed from Latin machina (“a machine, engine, contrivance, device, stratagem, trick”), itself a borrowing from Doric Ancient Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhanā́). Not to be confused with machin, which means "thing".

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