different between proscenium vs thrust

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

Etymology

From Old Norse þrysta, from Proto-Germanic *þrustijan?, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *trewd-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

thrust (countable and uncountable, plural thrusts)

1. (fencing) An attack made by moving the sword parallel to its length and landing with the point.

2. A push, stab, or lunge forward (the act thereof.)

3. The force generated by propulsion, as in a jet engine.

4. (figuratively) The primary effort; the goal.

Synonyms

• (push, stab, or lunge forward): break, dart, grab
• (force generated by propulsion): lift, push
• (primary effort or goal): focus, gist, point

Translations

Verb

thrust (third-person singular simple present thrusts, present participle thrusting, simple past and past participle thrust or thrusted)

1. (intransitive) To make advance with force.

2. (transitive) To force something upon someone.

3. (transitive) To push out or extend rapidly or powerfully.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with […] on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.

4. (transitive) To push or drive with force; to shove.
5. (intransitive) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero

     And thrust between my father and the god.

6. To stab; to pierce; usually with through.

Synonyms

• (advance with force): attack, charge, rush
• (force upon someone): compel, charge, force
• (push out or extend rapidly and powerfully): dart, reach, stab

Translations

Anagrams

• 'struth, Hurtts, struth, thurst, truths