different between recitative vs scena

English

Etymology

From Italian recitativo, from recitare, from Latin recitare.

Pronunciation

• (noun)
  • IPA^(key): /??s?t??ti?v/
• (adjective)
  • IPA^(key): /???sa?t?t?v/, /???s?te?t?v/

Noun

recitative (plural recitatives)

1. (music) dialogue, in an opera etc, that, rather than being sung as an aria, is reproduced with the rhythms of normal speech, often with simple musical accompaniment or harpsichord continuo, serving to expound the plot

Translations

Adjective

recitative (comparative more recitative, superlative most recitative)

1. of a recital

Italian

Adjective

recitative

1. feminine plural of recitativo

Anagrams

• cattiverie
• civetterai
• civetteria

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