scena

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scena

Noun

scena (plural scenas)

1. A scene in an opera.
2. An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
   • William Smith Rockstro, A General History of Music

     Few Contralto singers are unacquainted with the beautiful Scena, Ah rendimi qual core, from Mitrane.

Anagrams

• Canes, Casen, Cenas, Naces, acnes, canes

Etymology

From Latin scaena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛː.na/

Noun

scena f (plural scene)

1. scene (in all senses)
2. stage (of a theatre etc)

Anagrams

• nasce

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskeː.na/

Noun

scēna f (genitive scēnae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of scaena

References

• scena in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scena in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scena in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• scena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• scena in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scena in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Alternative forms

• scenen

Noun

scena m, f

1. definite feminine singular of scene

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)

Pronunciation

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Noun

scena f

1. stage (theatre)
2. scene

Further reading

• scena in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Noun

scèna f (Cyrillic spelling сцѐна)

1. scene (in all senses)
2. stage (of a theatre etc)