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In my language, everything is a motor and the "engine" root is only used in engineer.
by 8372049 2y ago
In my language, everything is a motor and the "engine" root is only used in engineer.
- Dulcynder 2y agoNot sure about your particular language but I'm appending to this comment to say that plenty of people saying latin languages don't have a word for engine are probably wrong. Motor comes from latin "that which moves something", for example in italian that's "motore". Engineer is "ingegnere", someone who uses "ingegno". So I'd argue the word for engine, in italian at least, is "marchingegno", which has somewhat a bad connotation (overly complex). I'm unsure if this was always the case. Translators give "contraption" which fits my understanding for the english word. So a generic word for a complex machine that does something. That said it's not used and you'll never hear someone talking about the marchingegno in a FIAT panda