scaena

• scēna

From Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “stage, scene”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskae̯.na/, [ˈs̠käe̯nä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈʃe.na/, [ˈʃɛːnä]

scaena f (genitive scaenae); first declension

1. stage
2. scene
3. theatre
4. natural background
5. publicity, the public eye
6. euphemism for death with dēcēdo

First-declension noun.

• Catalan: escena
• → German: Szene
  • → Russian: сцена (scena)
• Italian: scena
  • → English: scena
• Middle French: scene
  • → English: scene
  • French: scène
    • → Dutch: scène
  • Norman: scène
• Portuguese: cena
• Romanian: scenă
• → Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena
• Spanish: escena

• “scaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scaena”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scaena in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to introduce a character on the stage: in scaenam producere aliquem
    
  • to come upon the stage: in scaenam prodire
    
  • to reappear on the stage: in scaenam redire
    
  • to retire from the stage: de scaena decedere
    
  • to bring a thing upon the stage: in scaenam aliquid inducere