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, future participle māchinātūrus); first conjugation (Late Latin)

(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