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machinae

machinae is a Latin form of machina, meaning “machine; siege engine; device, trick”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun or vocative plural feminine noun or dative singular feminine noun or genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.147: … a est; tantum operis in ista locatione fuit quantum paucae operae fabrorum mercedis tulerunt, et manuspretium machinae. Vtrum existimatis minus operis esse unam columnam efficere ab integro novam nullo lapide redivivo an quattuo …

All forms of machina (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.