English

intermachine

From inter- + machine.

Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’

Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér ‘between’

Proto-Italic *n̥ter ‘between’

Latin inter ‘between’

Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ ‘machine, contrivance (Doric)’

Latin māchina ‘a machine, contrivance’

Middle French machine ‘machine’

Today it means

adj Between machines.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / intermachine