See scaena on Wiktionary
{
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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
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}
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"1": "ca",
"2": "escena",
"bor": "1"
},
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"name": "desc"
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],
"text": "→ Catalan: escena"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Szene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Szene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Szene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "сцена",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: сцена (scena)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: сцена (scena)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "scena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: scena\n→ English: scena\n→ Turkish: şano\n→ Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)\n→ Northern Kurdish: şano",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: scena\n→ English: scena\n→ Turkish: şano\n→ Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)\n→ Northern Kurdish: şano"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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"1": "frm",
"2": "scene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle French: scene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle French: scene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "scene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: scene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: scene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "scène"
},
"expansion": "French: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: scène"
},
{
"depth": 3,
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "scène",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: scène"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "scène"
},
"expansion": "Norman: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
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"text": "Norman: scène"
},
{
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"args": {
"1": "pt",
"2": "cena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: cena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Portuguese: cena"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "scenă",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: scenă",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Romanian: scenă"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "сцена",
"3": "scena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "escena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: escena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Spanish: escena"
}
],
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"2": "grc",
"3": "σκηνή"
},
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"name": "bor"
}
],
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"tags": [
"genitive"
]
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
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},
{
"form": "scaena",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"singular"
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{
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
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"form": "scaenārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
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"form": "scaenam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaena",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "scēna",
"tags": [
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]
}
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"english": "… or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, ….\n(A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.471–472",
"roman": "armātam facibus mātrem et serpentibus ātrīs ….",
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},
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"ref": "116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 7.96",
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}
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"stage"
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"feminine"
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"scene",
"scene"
]
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"_dis": "17 17 18 18 19 10",
"kind": "other",
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"parents": [],
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"theatre",
"theatre"
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"english": "Further on [there is] a backdrop with waving woods above; a dark forest overhanging and trembling with shade.",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.164–165",
"roman": "dēsuper; horrentīque ātrum nemus imminet umbrā.",
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"background",
"background"
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"backdrop",
"backdrop"
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
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{
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"parents": [],
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],
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[
"publicity",
"publicity"
]
],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "17 17 18 18 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "0 0 0 0 0 100",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "la",
"name": "Death",
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"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
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],
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[
"dēcēdo",
"decedo#Latin"
]
],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
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"ipa": "[ˈskae̯.na]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃɛː.na]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "scaena"
}
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin feminine nouns",
"Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
"Latin first declension nouns",
"Latin lemmas",
"Latin nouns",
"Latin terms borrowed from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek",
"Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"la:Death",
"la:Theater"
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"derived": [
{
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}
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"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ca",
"2": "escena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Catalan: escena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Catalan: escena"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "Szene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ German: Szene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ German: Szene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "ru",
"2": "сцена",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Russian: сцена (scena)",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Russian: сцена (scena)"
},
{
"depth": 1,
"templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "it",
"2": "scena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Italian: scena\n→ English: scena\n→ Turkish: şano\n→ Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)\n→ Northern Kurdish: şano",
"name": "desctree"
}
],
"text": "→ Italian: scena\n→ English: scena\n→ Turkish: şano\n→ Central Kurdish: شانۆ (şano)\n→ Northern Kurdish: şano"
},
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{
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"1": "frm",
"2": "scene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Middle French: scene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Middle French: scene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "scene",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ English: scene",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ English: scene"
},
{
"depth": 2,
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{
"args": {
"1": "fr",
"2": "scène"
},
"expansion": "French: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "French: scène"
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{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "scène",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Dutch: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Dutch: scène"
},
{
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"1": "nrf",
"2": "scène"
},
"expansion": "Norman: scène",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
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{
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"1": "pt",
"2": "cena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Portuguese: cena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "ro",
"2": "scenă",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Romanian: scenă",
"name": "desc"
}
],
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},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "sh",
"2": "сцена",
"3": "scena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena",
"name": "desc"
}
],
"text": "→ Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena"
},
{
"depth": 1,
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{
"args": {
"1": "es",
"2": "escena",
"bor": "1"
},
"expansion": "→ Spanish: escena",
"name": "desc"
}
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"source": "declension",
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"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"nominative",
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"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenārum",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"genitive",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"dative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenam",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenās",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"accusative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenā",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenīs",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"ablative",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "scaena",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"singular",
"vocative"
]
},
{
"form": "scaenae",
"source": "declension",
"tags": [
"plural",
"vocative"
]
},
{
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"alternative"
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"name": "la-noun"
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"1": "scaena<1>"
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"english": "… or [like] Agamemnon’s [son] Orestes, tormented onstage [by his dead] mother [who is] armed with torches and black snakes, ….\n(A poetic plural reference to theatrical performances of the tragedy.)",
"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.471–472",
"roman": "armātam facibus mātrem et serpentibus ātrīs ….",
"text": "… aut Agamemnonius scēnīs agitātus Orestēs"
},
{
"english": "Obscaenum ‘foul’ is said from scaena ‘stage’; this word Accius writes scena, like the Greeks.",
"ref": "116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De lingua Latina 7.96",
"text": "“Obscaenum” dictum ab “scaena”; eam, ut Graeci, Accius scribit “scena”."
}
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{
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]
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
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"theatre",
"theatre"
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"feminine"
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"ref": "29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.164–165",
"roman": "dēsuper; horrentīque ātrum nemus imminet umbrā.",
"text": "… tum silvīs scēna coruscīs"
}
],
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"scenery",
"scenery"
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[
"background",
"background"
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"backdrop",
"backdrop"
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"feminine"
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"publicity, the public eye"
],
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"publicity",
"publicity"
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],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
},
{
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],
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[
"dēcēdo",
"decedo#Latin"
]
],
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"declension-1",
"feminine"
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "[ˈskae̯.na]",
"tags": [
"Classical-Latin"
]
},
{
"ipa": "[ˈʃɛː.na]",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
}
],
"word": "scaena"
}
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