macinare

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin māchināre (“mill, grind”), a verb based on Latin māchina (“device, mill”), an early borrowing from Ancient Greek. Compare Venetian masnar~maxenar, Friulian masanâ, Dalmatian macnur. Morphological doublet of macchinare, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ma.t͡ʃiˈna.re/
  • Rhymes: -are
  • Hyphenation: ma‧ci‧nà‧re

Verb

macinàre (first-person singular present màcino, first-person singular past historic macinài, past participle macinàto, auxiliary avére) (transitive)

  1. to grind or mill
  2. to mince (meat)
  3. (rare) to beat up
    Synonym: malmenare
  4. to carry out an activity at a sustained or rapid pace
    macinare chilometri
    to travel long stretches of road (lit. to carry out kilometers)
    macinare idiozie ― to trot out nonsense
  5. to ponder deeply
    macinare un'idea ― to ponder an idea
  6. to squander or waste
    macina tanti soldi dopo averne guadagnati
    he wastes a lot of the money he earns

Conjugation
    Conjugation of macinàre (-are) (See Appendix:Italian verbs)
infinitive macinàre
auxiliary verb avére gerund macinàndo
present participle macinànte past participle macinàto
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present màcino màcini màcina maciniàmo macinàte màcinano
imperfect macinàvo macinàvi macinàva macinavàmo macinavàte macinàvano
past historic macinài macinàsti macinò macinàmmo macinàste macinàrono
future macinerò macinerài macinerà macinerémo macineréte macinerànno
conditional io tu lui/lei, esso/essa noi voi loro, essi/esse
present macinerèi macinerésti macinerèbbe, macinerébbe macinerémmo macineréste macinerèbbero, macinerébbero
subjunctive che io che tu che lui/che lei, che esso/che essa che noi che voi che loro, che essi/che esse
present màcini màcini màcini maciniàmo maciniàte màcinino
imperfect macinàssi macinàssi macinàsse macinàssimo macinàste macinàssero
imperative — tu Lei noi voi Loro
màcina màcini maciniàmo macinàte màcinino
negative imperative non macinàre non màcini non maciniàmo non macinàte non màcinino

Further reading
  • macinare in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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