machina

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

māchĭna: ae, f. = μηχανή,
I a machine, i. e. any artificial contrivance for performing work, an engine, fabric, frame, scaffolding, staging, easel, warlike engine, military machine, etc.
I Lit.
   A In gen.: moles et machina mundi, Lucr. 5, 96: omnes illae columnae machinā appositā dejectae sunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 55, § 145: torquet nunc lapidem, nunc ingens machina tignum, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73: trahuntque siccas machinae carinas, id. C. 1, 4, 2: frumentaria, Dig. 33, 7, 12.—
   B Esp.,
   1    A platform on which slaves were exposed for sale: amicam de machinis emere, Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 2, 8.—
   2    A painter's easel, Plin. 35, 10, 37, § 120.—
   3    A scaffold for building: de machinā cadere, Dig. 13, 6, 5; Plin. 19, 2, 8, § 30.—
   4    A military machine, warlike engine: machinis omnium generum expugnare oppidum, Sall. J. 21: aut haec in nostros fabricata est machina muros, Verg. A. 2, 46: murales, Plin. 7, 56, 57, § 202: arietaria, Vitr. 10, 19.—
II Trop., a device, plan, contrivance; esp. a trick, artifice, stratagem: at nunc disturba quas statuisti machinas, i. e. abandon your schemes, Plaut. Ps. 1, 5, 137: totam hanc legem ad illius opes evertendas tamquam machinam comparari, Cic. Agr. 2, 18, 50: omnes ad amplificandam orationem quasi machinae, * Quint. 11, 1, 44: dolum aut machinam commoliar, Caecil. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 29, 73: quantas moveo machinas! Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 1: aliquam machinabor machinam, Unde aurum efficiam, id. Bacch. 2, 2, 54.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

māchĭna,¹¹ æ, f. (μηχανή),
1 machine [ouvrage composé avec art] : Lucr. 5, 97
2 [en gén.] machine, engin : Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 145 ; Pis. 43 ; Sest. 133 ; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73
3 plate-forme [où les esclaves à vendre étaient exposés] : Q. Cic. Pet. 8 || échafaud [de maçon, peintre, etc.] : Plin. 19, 30
4 [fig.] expédient, artifice, machination : Cic. Domo 27 ; Agr. 2, 50 ; Quint. 11, 1, 44.

Latin > German (Georges)

māchina, ae, f. (μηχανή), die Maschine, das Gerüst, I) als künstlich zusammengesetztes Werk, mundi, Lucr. 5, 96. – II) insbes.: 1) als Vorrichtung, um etw. in Bewegung od. ins Werk zu setzen, a) eig., Steine fortzuschaffen, Cic.: Säulen herabzureißen, Cic.: Schiffe ins Meer zu ziehen, eine Walze, Hor. – im Bilde, hanc totam fere legem ad illius opes evertendas, tamquam machinam, comparari, Cic.: isdem machinis sperant me posse labefactari, Cic.: ut omnes adhibeam machinas ad tenendum adulescentulum, alle Hebel in Bewegung setzen muß, Cic. – b) übtr., Werkzeug zum Bösen, Kunstgriff, List, Plaut. u. Cic. – 2) das Gerüst, die Bühne zum Ausstellen der verkäuflichen Sklaven, amicam de machinis emit, Q. Cic. petit. cons. 8. – 3) ein Gerüst für Bauarbeiter = Baugerüst, machinae aedificationum, Plin.: de machina cadere, ICt. – für Maler = Staffelei, Plin. – 4) im Kriege, eine Maschine = grobes Geschütz (catapultae), Türme usw. zu Belagerungen, Sall., Verg. u. Liv.

Latin > English

machina machinae N F :: machine; siege engine; scheme

Translations

Afrikaans: masjien; Albanian: makinë; Amharic: ማሽን; Arabic: آلَة‎, مَاكِينَة‎; Egyptian Arabic: آلة‎, مكنة‎; Hijazi Arabic: مَكِينَة‎, آلة‎; South Levantine Arabic: آلة‎; Armenian: մեքենա; Assamese: শাল, কল, যন্ত্ৰ; Asturian: máquina; Azerbaijani: maşın; Basque: makina; Belarusian: машына; Bengali: মেশিন, যন্ত্র; Bulgarian: машина; Burmese: ယန္တရား, စက်; Catalan: màquina; Cherokee: ᎪᏢᏅᏙᏗ; Chinese Cantonese: 機, 机, 機器, 机器; Dungan: җичи; Mandarin: 機, 机, 機器, 机器, 機械, 机械, 器械; Min Nan: 機械, 机械, 機器, 机器; Cornish: jynn; Czech: stroj, mašina; Danish: maskine; Dutch: machine, apparaat; Esperanto: maŝino; Estonian: masin; Faroese: maskina; Finnish: kone; French: machine; Galician: máquina, enxeño; Georgian: მანქანა; German: Maschine; Greek: μηχανή, μηχανισμός, μηχάνημα; Ancient Greek: μηχανή, μαχανά; Gujarati: યંત્ર, મશીન; Hebrew: מְכוֹנָה‎; Hiligaynon: makina; Hindi: मशीन, यंत्र; Hungarian: gép, szerkezet, masina; Hunsrik: Maschin; Icelandic: vél; Indonesian: mesin; Irish: meaisín; Italian: macchina, meccanismo; Japanese: 機械, マシン, 器械; Kannada: ಯಂತ್ರ; Kazakh: машина; Khmer: យន្ត, គ្រឿង; Korean: 기계(機械), 기계(器械), 머신; Kurdish Central Kurdish: مەکینە‎; Northern Kurdish: makîne; Kyrgyz: машина; Lao: ເຄື່ອງ, ກົນ, ກົນຈັກ, ເຄື່ອງຈັກ; Latin: machina; Latvian: mašīna, aparāts; Lithuanian: mašina; Macedonian: машина, устројство; Malay: mesin; Malayalam: യന്ത്രം; Maltese: magna; Maori: mīhini, pūrere; Mongolian Cyrillic: машин; Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠱᠢᠨ; Norman: machinne; Norwegian Bokmål: maskin; Nynorsk: maskin; Old English: searu; Oriya: ଯନ୍ତ୍ର; Ottoman Turkish: ماكینه‎; Pali: yanta; Pashto: ماشين‎; Persian: ماشین‎; Plautdietsch: Maschien; Polish: maszyna, ustrojstwo, urządzenie; Portuguese: máquina; Punjabi: ਮਸ਼ੀਨ, ਜੰਤਰ; Romanian: mașină, mașină electrică, mașină mecanică; Romansch: maschina, maschegna; Russian: машина, механизм, аппарат, устройство, машинка; Sanskrit: यन्त्र; Scottish Gaelic: inneal; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: машина, стро̑ј; Roman: mašína, strȏj; Sinhalese: යන්ත්රය; Slovak: stroj, mašina; Slovene: stroj, mašina; Sorbian Lower Sorbian: mašina; Spanish: máquina; Swahili: mashine; Swedish: maskin; Tagalog: makina, sigmo, lansong, lansungan; Tajik: мошин, мошина; Tamil: எந்திரம்; Tatar: машина; Telugu: యంత్రము; Thai: เครื่อง, กล, เครื่องจักร; Tibetan: འཕྲུལ་འཁོར; Tigrinya: መኪና; Turkish: makine; Turkmen: maşyn, maşinka; Ukrainian: машина; Urdu: آلہ‎, مشین‎; Uyghur: ماشىنا‎; Uzbek: mashina; Vietnamese: máy, máy móc; Welsh: peiriant, ermig; White Hmong: tshuab; Yakut: массыына; Yiddish: מאַשין‎; Zhuang: gihgi, gihgai