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maquinar.

to engineer (to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile)

8 characters3 syllables approx.Português language

Meaning & usage

verb/ma.kiˈna(ʁ)/Brazil[ma.kiˈna(h)]Brazil/ma.kiˈna(ɾ)/São-Paulo/ma.kiˈna(ʁ)/Rio-de-Janeiro
  1. to engineer (to plan or achieve a goal by contrivance or guile)

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from Latin māchinārī (“scheme, plot”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“device, scheme”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek.

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