The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromμηχανή“machine”
- Latin · derived frommāchina
- French · derived frommachiniste
- English todaymachinist
From French machiniste, from machine (“machine, mechanical device”), from Latin māchina, from Ancient Greek μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “machine”).
Words from the same roots
Latinmāchina all →
machine
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.