Socratos Sign in

machinas

machinas is a Latin form of machina, meaning “machine; siege engine; device, trick”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 39 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 1.20: … m aliquod sit nihil sit extremum? Pronoea vero si vestra est Lucili eadem, requiro quae paulo ante, ministros machinas omnem totius operis dissignationem atque apparatum; sin alia est, cur mortalem fecerit mundum, non, quem ad m …

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.