The corpus record — Latin

machinator

machinator · m

a maker of machines, a machinist, an engineer, architect

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Where it lives

Troades 1 · 1.47/10k
Octavius 1 · 0.86/10k
In L. Catilinam 1 · 0.8/10k
Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino 1 · 0.75/10k
De Lege Agraria 1 · 0.73/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 1 · 0.71/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
Annales 2 · 0.23/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

māchĭnātor — Lewis & Short

māchĭnātor, ōris, m.machinor,

I a maker of machines, a machinist, an engineer, architect (class.).

I Lit., of Archimedes: inventor ac machinator bellicorum tormentorum, Liv. 24, 34: machinatores, qui pegmata per se surgentia excogitant, Sen. Ep. 88, 19: magistri et machinatores quibus ingenium et audacia erat, Tac. A. 15, 42: deus rerum omnium machinator fecit hominem, maker, creator, Lact. 2, 11. —

II Trop., a contriver, inventor: harum omnium rerum machinatores, Cic. Agr. 1, 5, 16: omnium architectus et machinator, id. Rosc. Am. 45, 132: horum omnium scelerum improbissimus machinator, id. Cat. 3, 3, 6: doli, Tac. A. 1, 10: auctor et machinator accusationis, App. Mag. p. 274, 22.

In the wild

machinatoribus Cicero, De Lege Agraria 1.16
machinator Apuleius, Apologia 2
machinator Livy, Ab urbe condita, books 21-25 - 24 p34
machinator Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 1 p43
machinator Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.24.34.2
machinatorem Cicero, In L. Catilinam 3.6

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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