Etymology

machinator

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Today it means: One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Full definition →

Latin māchinātor ← Ancient Greek μηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ) ← Proto-Indo-European *megʰ-der.?
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*megʰ-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμηχᾰνή (mēkhănḗ)
  3. Latinmāchina
  4. Latinmāchinor
  5. Latinmāchinātor
  6. English todaymachinator

Borrowed from Latin māchinātor (“engineer, inventor”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.