Machine

Morpheme

Machine

Type

free base

Denotation

engine, contrivance, device, contraption, that which enables

Etymology

Middle French machine; Latin māchina; Doric Greek mākhanā

Evidence

antimachine, biomachine, femtomachine, intermachine, machina, machinability, machinable, machination, machinator, machine, machineful, machineless, machinelike, machinery, machines, machinic, machinify, machinism, machinist, machinize, machinule, machinules, mismachine, nonmachine, remachine, supermachine

Notes

<Machine + -a> found in the phrase “deus ex machina”