machino

Latin

Etymology

From māchina (“device, mill”) +‎ -ō (verb-forming suffix). Parallel formation to the Classical Latin verb māchinor (“plot, scheme”), but never found in a deponent form or with that sense. First attested in the 6th century CE.

Verb

māchinō (present infinitive māchināre, perfect active māchināvī, supine māchinātum); first conjugation (Late Latin)

1. (nonstandard) to mill, grind

   Synonym: molō (Classical)

   • 6th–7th c. CE, Ravenna, Translation of Rufus' De Podagra :

     ...et orobu id est heruum muccinatum [sic] et tricoscinatum...

     ...and orobos, that is eruum [cultivated vetch], ground and sieved...

   • 6th c. CE, Ravenna, Translation of Oribasius' Synopsis :

     Oportet autem antequam macenetur fricare leviter apud lenteum.

     But before it is ground up it should be gently rubbed with a cloth.

   • 6th c. CE, Itinerarium Antonini Placentini :

     asellum qui illis macinabat

     ...the donkey, which was turning the millstone for them...

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: matsin, mãtsinari
  • Romanian: măcina, măcinare
• Dalmatian:
  • macnur
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: macinare
    • → Ligurian: maxinâ
    • → Piedmontese: maciné
  • Neapolitan: macenà
  • Sicilian: macinari
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: machinare, maghinare, marghinare (Logudorese), macinai (Campidanese)
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: masnar, masnèr
    • Lombard: masnar
  • Friulian: masanâ
  • Romansch: masnar, masner
  • Venetan: maxenar, masenar, masnar
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Spanish: maznar

References

• Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 485–486
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 254: “machinare (scil. il grano)” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• macinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “machinare”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 376