English

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.

Italian

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)

Related terms

• scenario
• scenata

Anagrams

• nasce

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskeː.na/

Noun

scēna f ‎(genitive scēnae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of scaena

Inflection

First declension.

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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “scena”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: 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, f

1. definite feminine singular of scene

Polish

scena

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σκηνή ‎(skēnḗ)

Pronunciation

Noun

scena f

1. stage (theatre)
2. scene

Declension

Derived terms

• scenariusz, sceniczny, scenowy, scenka, sceneria

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

scèna f ‎(Cyrillic spelling сцѐна)

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

Declension