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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).
Pronunciation
Noun
scaena f (genitive scaenae); first declension
- stage
- scene
- theatre
- (transferred) natural scenery, background, backdrop
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.164–165:
- tum silvīs scaena coruscīs
dēsuper; horrentīque ātrum nemus imminet umbrā.- Further on a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.
- publicity, the public eye
- euphemism for death with dēcēdo
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
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