“stage” in Latin

A raised platform, suggestus, -us (Liv.): suggestum (Cic.): catasta (a platform on which slaves were exhibited for sale): tabulatum (made of boards): machina: machinatio (considered as an artificial structure): pegma, -atis (Auson. ☞ In classical writers = a book-case [Cic.], or a machine used in a theatre [Sen.]). To prepare a stage, machinam comparare; machinationem praeparare, instruere.

Place for actors in a theatre, proscenium (space between the scena, scenes, and the orchestra; the pulpitum was the part of the proscenium which was nearest the orchestra). Our word “stage” may be represented by the more general terms, scena, theastrum. Of or belonging to the stage, scenicus: theatralis. To enter upon the stage, in scenam prodire, produci (of an actor). To retire from the stage, de scena recedere; scenam relinquere (of an actor). To make one’s first appearance on the stage [Vid: DEBUT]. The action is represented on the stage, res agitur in scenis: on the stage = theatrically, in fabulis: to bring upon the stage, novam fabulam in scenam inducere, producere.

Figuratively, Place of action or display, theatrum, scena. To go off the stage, a publico rerum gerendarum theatro recedere; e sole et pulvere in umbram et otium recedere (after Cic.); se removere a publicis negotiis (Cic.). To quit the stage = to die, a vita recedere; vita decedere (Cic.).

Degree in a journey, statio: stabulum (place for changing horses; the proper word of the Silver Age; Vid: Gierig., Plin., Ep., 6, 19, 4): hospitium ac stabulum: stabulum ac deversorium (quarters).

A stage-coach; i. e., coach that travels by stages, vehiculum publicum.

Single step in any progress, gradus.