The corpus record — Latin

machinatio

machinatio · f

artificial contrivance, mechanism, machinery

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

Where it lives

De Architectura 20 · 3.47/10k
De Bello Alexandrino 2 · 1.92/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 25 1 · 0.69/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
De bello Gallico 3 · 0.58/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 27 1 · 0.58/10k
de Natura Deorum 2 · 0.56/10k
Jugurtha 1 · 0.47/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

māchĭnātĭo — Lewis & Short

māchĭnātĭo, ōnis, f.machinor,

I artificial contrivance, mechanism, machinery (class.).

I Lit.: cum machinatione quadam moveri aliquid videmus, ut sphaeram, Cic. N. D. 2, 38, 97: data est quibusdam bestiis machinatio quaedam, et sollertia, power of contrivance, design, id. ib. 2, 48, 123.—

B Transf. (abstr. pro concreto), a machine, engine: tantae altitudinis machinationes, Caes. B. G. 2, 31: tanta, id. ib. 2, 30; 4, 17: navalis, id. B. C. 2, 10: tale machinationis genus, Liv. 37, 5.—

II Trop., a trick, device, machination, contrivance; artifice, fraud: judex tamquam machinatione aliqua tum ad severitatem, tum ad remissionem animi est contorquendus, Cic. de Or. 2, 17, 72: dolus malus est omnis calliditas, fallacia, machinatio ad circumveniendum, fallendum, decipiendum alterum adhibita, Dig. 4, 3, 1; 14: per machinationem obligatus, by artifice, by fraud, ib. 45, 1, 36.

In the wild

machinationibus Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.27.15.5
machinatio Cicero, de Natura Deorum 2.123
machinationibus Sallust, Jugurtha 92.p2
machinationis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.37.5.5
machinatio Vitruvius, De Architectura 1.3.1
machinatione Tertullian, De Carnis Resurrectione 8

6 of 45 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.