scena

See also: scéna, sceną, and sćěna

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scena. Doublet of scene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃeɪnə/

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• Naces, Canes, NECAs, Cenas, Casen, acnes, canes

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

scena f (plural scene)

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

Derived terms

• scenata

Related terms

• scenario

Descendants

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

Anagrams

• nasce, scane

Latin

Alternative forms

• scaena

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈske.na/, [ˈs̠kɛnä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.na/, [ˈʃɛːnä]

Noun

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

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

Descendants

• Catalan: escena
• → German: Szene
  • → Russian: сцена (scena)
• Italian: scena
  • → English: scena
• Middle French: scene
  • → English: scene
  • French: scène
    • → Dutch: scène
  • Norman: scène
• Portuguese: cena
• Romanian: scenă
• → Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena
• Spanish: escena

References

• “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

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• scenen

Noun

scena m or f

1. definite feminine singular of scene

Polish

scena

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scaena.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈst͡sɛ.na/

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• Rhymes: -ɛna
• Syllabification: sce‧na

Noun

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)

Declension

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

Derived terms

adjectives

• sceniczny

 

nouns

• przedscenie
• scenariusz
• sceneria
• zascenie

 

Related terms

nouns

• arierscena
• awanscena
• proscenium

 

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

scèna f (Cyrillic spelling сцѐна)

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

Declension

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