# stazione
## Italian
### Alternative forms

* statione (obsolete spelling)

### Etymology

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

* IPA: /statˈt͡sjo.ne/
* Audio (“una stazione”):(file)
* Rhymes: -one
* Hyphenation: sta‧zió‧ne

### Noun

stazione f or (archaic) m (plural stazioni)
* position, posture
* a stopping place
** 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXX [Chapter 30]”, in I promessi sposi‎, 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 marceThere 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
** stopping, halting (of vehicles)
    Synonyms: arresto, fermata
** (Christianity) station (any of the Stations of the Cross)
** (astronomy) station (apparent standing still of a superior planet)
* 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]‎, 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]‎, 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 spezialeAnd 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

* The noun is nowadays regarded as feminine only; its usage as masculine is obsolete.

#### Derived terms

* 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

* stagione
* stato
* stazionare
* stazionario
* stazzone

#### Descendants

* → Maltese: stazzjon

### Further reading

* stazione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana