machinal

From machine +‎ -al.

machinal (comparative more machinal, superlative most machinal)

1. Of, or pertaining to machines.
2. In the manner or style of a machine.

• Minchala

From machine +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ʃi.nal/
• Rhymes: -al

machinal (feminine machinale, masculine plural machinaux, feminine plural machinales)

1. automatic, unconscious, unvoluntary, mindless

• machinalement

• “machinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Probably from Mozarabic *machinal, from Late Latin machina (“scaffold”), form machina (“machine, tool”). Cognate with Spanish mechinal.^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /mat͡ʃiˈnal/

machinal m (plural machinais)

1. (architecture) putlog hole; hole made in a wall and used for scaffolding or ventilation

• bordinga

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “machinal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “machinal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “machinal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN