σκηνή

Loanword from a Semitic source (most likely Phoenician) meaning "dwelling." Compare Arabic س ك ن‎ (s-k-n) and Hebrew שכן‎. Theatrical sense from a tent or booth in the back of a classical Greek theater where actors would prepare.

σκηνή • (skēnḗ) f (genitive σκηνῆς); first declension

1. tent
2. (theater) stage

• προσκήνιον (proskḗnion)
• σκηνέω (skēnéō)
• σκηνικός (skēnikós)
• σκηνίτης (skēnítēs)
• σκηνοβατέω (skēnobatéō)
• σκηνογράφος (skēnográphos)
• σκηνοθήκη (skēnothḗkē)
• σκηνοπηγία (skēnopēgía)
• σκηνοποιός (skēnopoiós)
• σκηνορράφος (skēnorrháphos)
• σκήνωσις (skḗnōsis)

• → Coptic: ⲥⲕⲩⲛⲏ (skunē)
• → English: skene
• Greek: σκηνή (skiní)
• → Latin: scēna, scaena
  • Catalan: escena
  • → German: Szene
    • → Russian: сцена (scena)
  • Italian: scena
    • → English: scena
  • Middle French: scene
    • → English: scene
    • French: scène
      • → Dutch: scène
    • Norman: scène
  • Portuguese: cena
  • → Serbo-Croatian: сцена, scena
  • Spanish: escena

• σκηνή in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• σκηνή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G4633 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • booth idem, page 89.
  • cabin idem, page 108.
  • canopy idem, page 111.
  • canvas idem, page 111.
  • dwelling idem, page 257.
  • hut idem, page 412.
  • pavilion idem, page 599.
  • scene idem, page 738.
  • scenery idem, page 738.
  • shanty idem, page 762.
  • stage idem, page 808.
  • temple idem, page 860.
  • tent idem, page 862.

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

• IPA^(key): [sciˈni]
• Homophone: σκοινί (skoiní)

σκηνή • (skiní) f (plural σκηνές)

1. (Ancient Greek theatre) skene
2. (theater) scene, stage
3. tent

• σκηνικό n (skinikó, “scenery, scene”)
• σκηνικός (skinikós, “stage, scene”) (adjective)