different between scene vs scena

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

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