machiner

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?

Doric Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)

Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ (mākhănā́)bor.

Latin māchinabor.

Middle French machinebor.

English machine

English -er

English machiner

From machine + -er.

Noun

machiner (plural machiners)

1. One who operates a machine.
2. (obsolete) A horse employed to pull a vehicle.
   • 1899, Jerome Klapka Jerome, ‎Robert Barr, ‎Arthur Lawrence, The Idler (volume 14, page 503)

     Five hunters, two covert hacks, and one machiner — all looking wonderfully fit.

Synonyms

• (one who operates a machine): machinist
• (a horse): coach horse, post horse

Anagrams

• Reichman, chairmen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“machine, contrivance, device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. See also machine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʃi.ne/

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Verb

machiner

1. (transitive) to equip with machines
2. (transitive) to machinate
3. (transitive) to scheme

Conjugation

Conjugation of machiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	machiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	machinant /ma.ʃi.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		machiné /ma.ʃi.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	machine /ma.ʃin/	machines /ma.ʃin/	machine /ma.ʃin/	machinons /ma.ʃi.nɔ̃/	machinez /ma.ʃi.ne/	machinent /ma.ʃin/
	imperfect	machinais /ma.ʃi.nɛ/	machinais /ma.ʃi.nɛ/	machinait /ma.ʃi.nɛ/	machinions /ma.ʃi.njɔ̃/	machiniez /ma.ʃi.nje/	machinaient /ma.ʃi.nɛ/
	past historic2	machinai /ma.ʃi.ne/	machinas /ma.ʃi.na/	machina /ma.ʃi.na/	machinâmes /ma.ʃi.nam/	machinâtes /ma.ʃi.nat/	machinèrent /ma.ʃi.nɛʁ/
	future	machinerai /ma.ʃin.ʁe/	machineras /ma.ʃin.ʁa/	machinera /ma.ʃin.ʁa/	machinerons /ma.ʃin.ʁɔ̃/	machinerez /ma.ʃin.ʁe/	machineront /ma.ʃin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	machinerais /ma.ʃin.ʁɛ/	machinerais /ma.ʃin.ʁɛ/	machinerait /ma.ʃin.ʁɛ/	machinerions /ma.ʃi.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	machineriez /ma.ʃi.nə.ʁje/	machineraient /ma.ʃin.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	machine /ma.ʃin/	machines /ma.ʃin/	machine /ma.ʃin/	machinions /ma.ʃi.njɔ̃/	machiniez /ma.ʃi.nje/	machinent /ma.ʃin/
	imperfect2	machinasse /ma.ʃi.nas/	machinasses /ma.ʃi.nas/	machinât /ma.ʃi.na/	machinassions /ma.ʃi.na.sjɔ̃/	machinassiez /ma.ʃi.na.sje/	machinassent /ma.ʃi.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	machine /ma.ʃin/	—	machinons /ma.ʃi.nɔ̃/	machinez /ma.ʃi.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

• machination
• machine

Descendants

• → Romanian: mașina

Further reading

• “machiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Latin

Verb

māchiner

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of māchinor