different between column vs proscenium

English

Etymology

From Middle English columne, columpne, columpe, borrowed from Old French columne, from Latin columna (“a column, pillar, post”), originally a collateral form of columen, contraction culmen (“a pillar, top, crown, summit”). Akin to Latin collis (“a hill”), celsus (“high”), probably to Ancient Greek ??????? (koloph?n, “top, summit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American), (Ireland) enPR: k?l??m, IPA^(key): /?k?l?m/
• (General American, rare), (Ireland) enPR: k?l?j?m, IPA^(key): /?k?lj?m/
• Hyphenation: col?umn
• Rhymes: -?l?m

Noun

column (plural columns)

1. (architecture) A solid upright structure designed usually to support a larger structure above it, such as a roof or horizontal beam, but sometimes for decoration.
2. A vertical line of entries in a table, usually read from top to bottom.
3. A body of troops or army vehicles, usually strung out along a road.
4. A body of text meant to be read line by line, especially in printed material that has multiple adjacent such on a single page.

5. A unit of width, especially of advertisements, in a periodical, equivalent to the width of a usual column of text.

6. (by extension) A recurring feature in a periodical, especially an opinion piece, especially by a single author or small rotating group of authors, or on a single theme.

7. Something having similar vertical form or structure to the things mentioned above, such as a spinal column.
8. (botany) The gynostemium
9. (chemistry) An object used to separate the different components of a liquid or to purify chemical compounds.

Synonyms

• (upright structure): post, pillar, sile

Antonyms

• (line of table entries): row (which is horizontal)

Hypernyms

• (upright structure): beam

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

• column in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• column in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• proscænium

Etymology

From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p????si?.ni.?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?o??si?.ni.?m/

Noun

proscenium (plural prosceniums or proscenia)

1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
   • 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58

     The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (???, "before"+?????).

4. A proscenium arch.

Coordinate terms

Translations

Danish

Noun

proscenium n (singular definite prosceniet, plural indefinite proscenier)

1. proscenium

Inflection

Latin

Alternative forms

• proscaenium

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (prosk?nion), from ??? (pró, “before”) + ????? (sk?n?, “scene building”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pros?ke?.ni.um/, [p??s??ke?ni???]
• (Vulgar) IPA^(key): /pros?ke?.ni.u/, [pros?ke?n?u]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pro??e.ni.um/, [p??????nium]

Noun

prosc?nium n (genitive prosc?ni? or prosc?n?); second declension

1. proscenium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), with locative.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• ? English: proscenium
• French: proscénium
• Italian: proscenio

References

• proscenium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proscenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette