noun · femininefirst declension
scaena
scaena f (genitive scaenae)
Classical[ˈskae̯.na]Ecclesiastical[ˈʃɛː.na]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- femininestage
[...] 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.)29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.471–472“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.116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 7.96 - femininescene
- femininetheatre
- femininenatural scenery, background, backdrop
[...] tum silvīs scēna coruscīs
Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.164–165 - femininepublicity, the public eye
- feminineeuphemism for death with dēcēdo
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
alta pars theātrī, in quā fābula agitur.scaena -ae f — in Mille Verba, ch. Lūdī et Ōtium
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | scaena | scaenae scēnae |
| genitive | scaenae scēnae | scaenārum scēnārum |
| dative | scaenae scēnae | scaenīs scēnīs |
| accusative | scaenam scēnam | scaenās scēnās |
| ablative | scaenā | scaenīs scēnīs |
| vocative | scaena | scaenae scēnae |
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- in scaenam redire
- to reappear on the stage.
- in scaenam prodire
- to come upon the stage.
- de scaena decedere
- to retire from the stage.
- in scaenam aliquid inducere
- to bring a thing upon the stage.
- in scaenam producere aliquem
- to introduce a character on the stage.
scaena, ae (falsely scēna, v. Prol. in Verg. p. 387 Rib.), f., = σκηνή.
I. Lit., the stage, boards, scene of a theatre:
dum histrio in scaenă siet, Plaut. Poen. prol. 20: in scaenă esse Roscium intellegat, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: foris hic extra scaenam fient proelia, Plaut. Capt. prol. 60: cum scaena croco Cilici perfusa recens est, Lucr. 2, 416: scaenaique simul varios splendere decores, id. 4, 983: scaenae magnificentia, Cic. Mur. 19, 38: nec vero scaena solum referta est his sceleribus, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: vel scaena ut versis discedat frontibus, Verg. G. 3, 24; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205 et saep.—Plur.: columnas excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris, a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 429: aut Agamemnonius scaenis agitatus Orestes, on the stage, i. e. in tragedies, Verg. A. 4, 471: aut agitur res in scaenis, Hor. A. P. 179.—B. Transf.
1. Of a place like a scene of a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 164.—
2. (Post-Aug.) Of the schools of rhetoric, as scenes for the display of eloquence:
at nunc adulescentuli deducuntur in scaenas scholasticorum, qui rhetores vocantur, Tac. Or. 35; cf. Plin Ep. 7, 17, 9.— II. Trop.
1. The public stage, the public:
quia maxima quasi oratori scaena videatur contionis, Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 338; id. Planc. 12, 29: ubi se a vulgo et scaena in secreta remorant Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli, Hor. S. 2, 1, 71.—Prov.: scaenae servire, to show one's self, live in the public eye, Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 8, 2.—2. Outward show, parade, pretext: scaena rei totius haec: Pompeius, tamquam Caesarem non impugnet, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3; cf.:
ne quid scaenae deesset, Petr. 117, 10; Suet. Calig. 15: scaenam ultro criminis parat, Tac. A. 14, 7 fin.—3. Appearance, character:
scaenam quam sponte sumpserat cum animă retinens, App. M. 4, 20, p. 151, 29.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
scaena (scēna) ae, f
, σκηνή.—In a theatre, the stage, boards, scene: hoc videbit in scaena: scaenae magnificentia: Vel scaena ut versis discedat frontibus, V.: columnas excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris, a theatre, V.: scaenis agitatus Orestes, i. e. in tragedies, V.: tum silvis scaena coruscis, etc., i. e. an open space surrounded by the wood, V.—Fig., the public stage, public, publicity: quia maxima oratori quasi scaena videtur contio esse: quae si minus in scenā sunt, i. e. in public view: se a volgo et scaenā in secreta remorant Virtus, etc., H.—Prov.: tibi scenae serviendum est, i. e. keep yourself in public view.—A pretence, parade, pretext: scaenam ultro criminis parat, Ta.
Origins
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃-der. Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ)bor. Latin scaena From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ). Seemingly with a hypercorrective /ae̯/ < /eː/ in reaction to an opposite trend (cf. haedus, saeta > ēdus, sēta).
Descendants
- Catalanescena
- GermanSzene
- Italianscena
- Englishscenafrom Italian scena
- Englishscenefrom Middle French scene
- Frenchscènefrom Middle French scene
- Romanianscenăfrom Middle French scene
- Portuguesecena
- Spanishescena
- Russianсценаfrom German Szene