# scena
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scena. Doublet of scene.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃeɪnə/

### Noun

scena (plural scenas or scenae)
* A scene in an opera.
* An accompanied dramatic recitative, interspersed with passages of melody, or followed by a full aria.
** 1886, William Smith Rockstro, A General History of Music:Few Contralto singers are unacquainted with the beautiful Scena, Ah rendimi qual core, from Mitrane.
* (historical) The stage of an ancient theatre.

### Anagrams

* Naces, Canes, NECAs, Cenas, Casen, acnes, canes

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin scena, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: $^*$/ˈʃɛ.na/
* Rhymes: -ɛna
* Hyphenation: scè‧na

### Noun

scena f (plural scene)
* scene (in all senses)
* stage (of a theatre etc)

#### Derived terms

* scenata

#### Related terms

* scenario

#### Descendants

* → English: scena
* → Turkish: şano
** → Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)
*** → Northern Kurdish: şano

### Anagrams

* nasce, scane

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* scaena

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈske.na/, [ˈs̠kɛnä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈʃe.na/, [ˈʃɛːnä]

### Noun

scēna f (genitive scēnae); 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.)
** 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.
* scene
* theatre
* (transferred) natural scenery, background, backdrop
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.164–165:[...] tum silvīs scēna coruscīs dēsuper; horrentīque ātrum nemus imminet umbrā.Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.
* publicity, the public eye
* euphemism for death with dēcēdo

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Catalan: escena
* → German: Szene
** → Russian: сцена (scena)
* Italian: scena
** → English: scena
* Middle French: scene
** → English: scene
** French: scène
*** → Dutch: scène
** Norman: scène
* Portuguese: cena
* Romanian: scenă
* → Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena
* Spanish: escena

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* scenen

### Noun

scena m or f
* definite feminine singular of scene

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃeː.nɑ/

### Adjective

sċēna
* inflection of sċēne:
** strong nominative/accusative feminine plural
** weak nominative masculine singular

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin scaena.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈst͡sɛ.na/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛna
* Syllabification: sce‧na

### Noun

scena f (diminutive scenka, related adjective scenowy)
* (theater) stage, platform (surface, generally elevated, upon which show performances or other public events are given)
* scene (location of an event that attracts attention)
* picture, scene (view or scene from life observed by someone or shown on television, in theater, etc.)
    Synonyms: obrazek, scenka
* (colloquial) scene (heated argument)

#### Derived terms

* sceniczny
* przedscenie
* scenariusz
* sceneria
* zascenie

#### Related terms

* arierscena
* awanscena
* proscenium

### Further reading

* scena in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* scena in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* scena in PWN's encyclopedia

## Portuguese
### Noun

scena f (plural scenas)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1945 in Portugal) of cena.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

scèna f (Cyrillic spelling сцѐна)
* scene (in all senses)
* stage (of a theatre etc)