different between dramatic vs scena

English

Alternative forms

• dramatick

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (dramatikós), from ????? (drâma, “drama, play”), from ???? (drá?, “I do, accomplish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???mæt?k/

Adjective

dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)

1. Of or relating to the drama.
2. Striking in appearance or effect.
3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

Derived terms

• nondramatic

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??????? (doramatikku)

Translations

Further reading

• "dramatic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 109.

Romanian

Etymology

From French dramatique, from Latin dramaticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dra?ma.tik/

Adjective

dramatic m or n (feminine singular dramatic?, masculine plural dramatici, feminine and neuter plural dramatice)

1. dramatic

Declension

Further reading

• dramatic in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian scena. Doublet of scene.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?n?/

Noun

scena (plural scenas or scenae)

1. A scene in an opera.
2. 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.

3. (historical) The stage of an ancient theatre.

Anagrams

• Canes, Casen, Cenas, Naces, acnes, canes

Italian

Etymology

From Latin scaena, from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “stage, scene”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???.na/

Noun

scena f (plural scene)

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

Derived terms

• scenata

Related terms

• scenario

Descendants

• ? English: scena

Anagrams

• nasce

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ske?.na/, [?s?ke?nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /??e.na/, [????n?]

Noun

sc?na f (genitive sc?nae); first declension

1. Alternative spelling of scaena

Declension

First-declension noun.

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)
• 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

1. definite feminine singular of scene

Polish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?s?.na/

Noun

scena f

1. stage (theatre)
2. scene

Declension

Derived terms

• scenariusz, sceniczny, scenowy, scenka, sceneria

Further reading

• scena in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

scèna f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

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

Declension