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scena

See also: scéna, sceną, and sćěna

English

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Borrowed from Italian scena. Doublet of scene.

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Noun

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scena (plural scenas or scenae)

  1. A scene in an opera.
  2. An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
    • 1886, William Smith Rockstro, A General History of Music:
      Few Contralto singers are unacquainted with the beautiful Scena, Ah rendimi qual core, from Mitrane.
  3. (historical) The stage of an ancient theatre.

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).

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  • IPA(key): */ˈʃɛ.na/
  • Rhymes: -ɛna
  • Hyphenation: scè‧na

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scena f (plural scene)

  1. scene (in all senses)
  2. stage (of a theatre etc)

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Descendants

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  • → English: scena
  • → Turkish: şano
    • → Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)
      • → Northern Kurdish: şano

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Latin

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).

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scēna f (genitive scēnae); first declension

  1. stage
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.471–472:
      [...] aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs
      armātam facibus mātrem et serpentibus ātrīs [...].
      [...] or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, [...].
      (A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)
    • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 7.96:
      “Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”.
      Obscaenum ‘foul’ is said from scaena ‘stage’; this word Accius writes scena, like the Greeks.
  2. scene
  3. theatre
  4. (transferred) natural scenery, background, backdrop
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.164–165:
      [...] tum silvīs scēna coruscīs
      dēsuper; horrentīque ātrum nemus imminet umbrā.
      Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.
  5. publicity, the public eye
  6. euphemism for death with dēcēdo

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scēna scēnae
genitive scēnae scēnārum
dative scēnae scēnīs
accusative scēnam scēnās
ablative scēnā scēnīs
vocative scēna scēnae

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References

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  • “scena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “scena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • scena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “scena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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Noun

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scena m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of scene

Polish

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Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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scena

Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin scaena.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈst͡sɛ.na/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛna
  • Syllabification: sce‧na

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scena f (diminutive scenka, related adjective scenowy)

  1. (theater) stage, platform (surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given)
  2. scene (location of an event that attracts attention)
  3. picture, scene (view or scene from life observed by someone or shown on television, in theater, etc.)
    Synonyms: obrazek, scenka
  4. (colloquial) scene (heated argument)

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Declension of scena
singular plural
nominative scena sceny
genitive sceny scen
dative scenie scenom
accusative scenę sceny
instrumental sceną scenami
locative scenie scenach
vocative sceno sceny

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Further reading

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  • scena in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • scena in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • scena in PWN's encyclopedia

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Noun

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scèna f (Cyrillic spelling сцѐна)

  1. scene (in all senses)
  2. stage (of a theatre etc)

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Declension of scena
singular plural
nominative scena scene
genitive scene scena
dative sceni scenama
accusative scenu scene
vocative sceno scene
locative sceni scenama
instrumental scenom scenama
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