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scaena

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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scaena f (genitive scaenae); first declension

  1. Alternative spelling of scēna, showing an early example of hypercorrectism of /ɛː/ to /ae/.[1]
    • 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.

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scaena scaenae
genitive scaenae scaenārum
dative scaenae scaenīs
accusative scaenam scaenās
ablative scaenā scaenīs
vocative scaena scaenae

References

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  • scaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • scaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to introduce a character on the stage: in scaenam producere aliquem
    • to come upon the stage: in scaenam prodire
    • to reappear on the stage: in scaenam redire
    • to retire from the stage: de scaena decedere
    • to bring a thing upon the stage: in scaenam aliquid inducere

Notes

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  1. ^ Calabrese, Andrea (2005). “On the evolution of the short high vowels of Latin into Romance” (PDF). A View from Arjona. University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics. 13: 69. doi:10.1075/cilt.244.08cal. Retrieved 2024-11-16.