Etymograph

English

machinator

Machinator comes from Latin māchinātor ‘engineer, inventor’, and goes back to Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ ‘machine, tool’.

  1. Doric Greekmodernμᾱχᾰνᾱ́‘machine, tool’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchina‘war machine, military engine, siege engine’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchinor‘to devise, invent’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchinātor‘engineer, inventor’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627machinator

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Doric Greekmodernμᾱχᾰνᾱ́‘machine, tool’
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchina‘war machine, military engine, siege engine’
  3. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchinor‘to devise, invent’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmāchinātor‘engineer, inventor’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1627machinator

Earliest quotation: 1627, Henry Burton, The Baiting of the Popes Bull: “what Archimedes did by the cleane strength of his…”

Every English word from Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́

Today it means

noun One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

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

Etymograph / Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ / machinator

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