different between proscenium vs scene

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

English

Alternative forms

• scæne (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, sc?na, from Ancient Greek ????? (sk?n?, “scene, stage”). Doublet of scena.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n, IPA^(key): /si?n/
• Homophone: seen
• Rhymes: -i?n

Noun

scene (plural scenes)

1. The location of an event that attracts attention.

3. (archaic, theater) the stage.

4. (theater) The decorations; furnishings and backgrounds of a stage, representing the place in which the action of a play is set

5. (theater, film, television, radio) A part of a dramatic work that is set in the same place or time. In the theatre, generally a number of scenes constitute an act.

6. The location, time, circumstances, etc., in which something occurs, or in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is set up
   • c. 1810, John M. Mason, On Religious Controversy

     The world is a vast scene of strife.

7. A combination of objects or events in view or happening at a given moment at a particular place.

   • Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!

8. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.

   • A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, / Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn.
9. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others, creating embarrassment or disruption; often, an artificial or affected action, or course of action, done for effect; a theatrical display
   • 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Kolsterheim

     Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait or some explosions between parties, both equally ready to take offence, and careless of giving it.

10. An element of fiction writing.
11. A social environment consisting of an informal, vague group of people with a uniting interest; their sphere of activity; a subculture.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• proscenium

Verb

scene (third-person singular simple present scenes, present participle scening, simple past and past participle scened)

1. (transitive) To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display.

Anagrams

• cenes, cense, sence

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /se?n?/, [?se?n?]
• Homophone: sene

Noun

scene c (singular definite scenen, plural indefinite scener)

1. stage (platform for performing in a theatre)
2. scene (section of a film or a play)
3. scene (a setting or a behaviour)

Inflection

Derived terms

• iscenesætte
• sceneri
• sceneshow

Italian

Noun

scene f pl

1. plural of scena

Middle French

Etymology

First known attestation 1486, borrowed from Latin scaena.

Noun

scene f

1. stage (location where a play, etc., takes place)

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• sene

Etymology

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

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

1. a stage (in a theatre)
2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

• iscenesette
• sceneshow

References

• “scene” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sene

Etymology

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

Noun

scene m (definite singular scenen, indefinite plural scenar, definite plural scenane)
scene f (definite singular scena, indefinite plural scener, definite plural scenene)

1. a stage (in a theatre)
2. a scene (in a film or play)

Derived terms

• sceneshow

References

• “scene” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *skaun?, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.ne/

Adjective

s??ne

1. Alternative form of s??ene

Declension