macchinare

Meaning

  1. to plot, to contrive, to machinate
  2. (poetic, rare) to machine

Hyphenated as
mac‧chi‧nà‧re
Pronounced as (IPA)
/mak.kiˈna.re/
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.

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