The corpus record — Latin

machinarius

machinarius · adj

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

māchĭnārĭus — Lewis & Short

māchĭnārĭus, a, um, adj.machina,

I of or belonging to machines, machine- (postclass.).

I Adj.: mola, which is worked by an animal by means of a machine, App. M. 7, p. 194, 20: asinus, Dig. 33, 7, 12: mensor, a surveyor, ib. 11, 6, 7: commentator, a machinist, machine-builder, Sol. 5.—

II Subst.: māchĭnārĭus, ii, m., one who works on a scaffold, Dig. 9, 2, 31.

In the wild

machinariae Apuleius, Metamorphoses 7.15

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.