The corpus record — Latin

machinamentum

machinamentum · n

a machine, engine; an instrument, organ

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

De Constantia 1 · 1.89/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Annales 3 · 0.34/10k
Historiae 1 · 0.19/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

māchĭnāmentum — Lewis & Short

māchĭnāmentum, i, n.id.,

I a machine, engine; an instrument, organ (perh. not ante-Aug.; not in Cic. or Cæs.).

I Lit.: machinamenta alia quatiendis muris portabant, military engines, Liv. 24, 34: suspensum et nutans machinamentum, Tac. H. 4, 30: nihil tam ignarum barbaris, quam machinamenta et astus oppugnationum, id. A. 12, 45: tot genera machinamentorum ad extendendum femur, surgical instruments, Cels. 8, 20: singulis articulis singula machinamenta, quibus extorqueantur, aptata, Sen. Ep. 24, 14; id. Cons. ad Marc. 20, 3.—*

B Transf., the organs of sense, App. Dogm. Plat. 1, p. 9, 20.—

II Trop., a trick, device, stratagem (post-class.): callida commeantium, Cod. Th. 6, 28, 6.

In the wild

machinamenta Tacitus, Annales 12.p46
machinamenta Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 22
machinamentum Tacitus, Historiae 4.32
machinamenta Seneca, De Constantia 2.6.4
machinamenta Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 3.24.14
machinamento Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 23.4.8

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.