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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
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.
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “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, 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
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