stazione

Italian

Alternative forms

• statione (obsolete spelling)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin statiōnem. Doublet of stagione, stazzo, stazzone, and stazio, of which the first three were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /statˈt͡sjo.ne/

• Audio (“una stazione”)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: sta‧zió‧ne

Noun

stazione f or (archaic) m (plural stazioni)

1. position, posture
2. a stopping place
   • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXX [Chapter 30]”, in I promessi sposi‎^[1], Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 577:

     Si disputava quali fossero i reggimenti più indiavolati, se fosse peggio la fanteria o la cavalleria; si ripetevano, il meglio che si poteva, certi nomi di condottieri; d’alcuni si raccontavan l’imprese passate, si specificavano le stazioni e le marce

     There were arguments about which regiments were the wildest; about whichever was worse between infantry and cavalry; some repeated, as best as they could, some names of leaders; the past endeavours/endeavors of some of those were being told, their stops and marches were being specified

   1. stopping, halting (of vehicles)

      Synonyms: arresto, fermata

   2. (Christianity) station (any of the Stations of the Cross)
   3. (astronomy) station (apparent standing still of a superior planet)
3. station (stopping place for ground transportation)

   stazione ferroviaria ― railway station

   • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “7. Cambio treno”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎^[2], published 1919, page 88:

     Alla prima stazione italiana comprai un giornale, con la speranza che mi facesse addormentare. Lo spiegai, e al lume del lampadino elettrico, mi misi a leggere.

     At the first Italian station, I bought a newspaper, hoping it would put me to sleep. I unfolded it, and I started reading by the light of the electric lamp.

4. (by extension, mining) station
5. a place of residence
6. (palaeoethnology) a type of prehistorical human settlement
7. (biogeography) a place inhabited by one or more species

   Synonym: biotopo

8. a vacation place
9. a place where workers are stationed
   1. station (place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task)
   2. station (place used for broadcasting radio or television)
   3. store
      • 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione [Loving Vision]‎^[3], published 1833, page 48:

        E secondochè alcuni degni di fede raccontano, […] egli essendo una volta tra le altre in Siena, e avvenutosi per accidente alla stazione d'uno speziale

        And according to some reliable sources, one of the times he [Dante] was in Siena, and had by chance happened upon a grocer's store

Usage notes

• The noun is nowadays regarded as feminine only; its usage as masculine is obsolete.

Derived terms

• autostazione
• capostazione
• ecostazione
• sottostazione
• stazionamento
• stazionare
• stazionario
• stazione balneare
• stazione climatica
• stazione di frontiera
• stazione di polizia
• stazione di rifornimento
• stazione di servizio
• stazione ferroviaria
• stazione orbitale
• stazione radiofonica
• stazione spaziale
• stazione televisiva
• stazione termale

 

Related terms

• stagione
• stato
• stazionare
• stazionario
• stazzone

 

Descendants

• → Maltese: stazzjon

Further reading

• stazione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana