scaena
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Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈskae̯.na/, [ˈs̠käe̯nä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈʃe.na/, [ˈʃɛːnä]
Noun
[edit]scaena f (genitive scaenae); first declension
- 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.
- “Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | scaena | scaenae |
genitive | scaenae | scaenārum |
dative | scaenae | scaenīs |
accusative | scaenam | scaenās |
ablative | scaenā | scaenīs |
vocative | scaena | scaenae |
References
[edit]- “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
- to introduce a character on the stage: in scaenam producere aliquem
Notes
[edit]- ^ 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.