Borrowed fromItalian scena Doublet ofscene
scena (plural scenas or scenae
Ascene in anopera . An accompanieddramatic recitative , interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a fullaria .1886 A General History of Music :Few Contralto singers are unacquainted with the beautifulScena ,Ah rendimi qual core , fromMitrane .
( historical ) stage of an ancienttheatre .Borrowed fromLatin scena Ancient Greek σκηνή ( skēnḗ ,“ stage ,scene ” ) .
scena f plural scene
scene (in all senses)stage (of a theatre etc)FromAncient Greek σκηνή ( skēnḗ ,“ stage ,scene ” ) .
scēna f genitive scēnae first declension
stage 29BCE BCE ,
Virgil ,
Aeneid 4.471–472 :
[...] aut Agamemnoniusscēnīs agitātus Orestēs [...] or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormentedonstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, [...]. 116BCE BCE ,
Marcus Terentius Varro ,
De lingua Latina 7.96:
“Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena ”. Obscaenum ‘foul’ is said fromscaena ‘stage’; this word Accius writesscena scene theatre (transferred) naturalscenery ,background ,backdrop 29BCE BCE ,
Virgil ,
Aeneid 1.164–165 :
[...] tum silvīsscēna coruscīs Further on [there is] abackdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade. publicity , the public eyeeuphemism for death withdēcēdo First-declension noun.
“scena Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 )A Latin Dictionary “scena Charlton T. Lewis (1891 )An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers "scena ", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis scena inGaffiot, Félix (1934 )Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. “scena Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898 ),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities , New York: Harper & Brothers “scena William Smith et al., editor (1890 ),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin scena m or f
definite feminine singular ofscene sċēna
inflection ofsċēne strong nominative / accusative feminine plural weak nominative masculine singular scena Learned borrowing fromLatin scaena
IPA (key ) : /ˈst͡sɛ.na/ Rhymes:-ɛna Syllabification:sce‧na scena f diminutive scenka related adjective scenowy
( theater ) stage ,platform ( surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given ) scene ( location of an event that attracts attention ) picture ,scene ( view or scene from life observed by someone or shown on television, in theater, etc. ) Synonyms: obrazek scenka ( colloquial ) scene ( heated argument ) scena inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANscena in Polish dictionaries at PWNscena in PWN's encyclopediascena f plural scenas
Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) ofcena scèna f Cyrillic spelling сцѐна
scene (in all senses)stage (of a theatre etc)
