scaena
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ). Seemingly with a hypercorrective /ae̯/ > /eː/ in reaction to an opposite trend (cf. haedus, saeta > ēdus, sēta).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈskae̯.na]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈʃɛː.na]
Noun
[edit]scaena f (genitive scaenae); first declension
- stage
- 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.471–472:
- [...] aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs
armātam facibus mātrem et serpentibus ātrīs [...].- [...] or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, [...].
(A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)
- [...] or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, [...].
- [...] aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs
- 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.
- “Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”.
- scene
- theatre
- (transferred) natural scenery, background, backdrop
- publicity, the public eye
- euphemism for death with dēcēdo
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | scaena | scaenae |
genitive | scaenae | scaenārum |
dative | scaenae | scaenīs |
accusative | scaenam | scaenās |
ablative | scaenā | scaenīs |
vocative | scaena | scaenae |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- scaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scaena”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scaena”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin