stazione
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- statione (obsolete spelling)
Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]stazione f or (archaic) m (plural stazioni)
- position, posture
- 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
- 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.
- (by extension, mining) station
- a place of residence
- (palaeoethnology) a type of prehistorical human settlement
- (biogeography) a place inhabited by one or more species
- Synonym: biotopo
- a vacation place
- a place where workers are stationed
- station (place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task)
- station (place used for broadcasting radio or television)
- 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
[edit]- The noun is nowadays regarded as feminine only; its usage as masculine is obsolete.
Derived terms
[edit]- 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
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Maltese: stazzjon
Further reading
[edit]- stazione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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