Translation
stage (in a theatre)
Word origin
Built inside Esperanto from sceno plus the place suffix -ej-. Sceno comes from Latin scaena and before that Greek skene, the tent or hut behind the acting area of an ancient theatre, which is where the actors changed and from which the whole idea of scenery grew.
- Origin
- Esperanto, on Greek skene via Latin
- Root
- sceno + -ej-
- English cognates
- scene, scenery, proscenium
Examples
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The actor stood alone on the stage.
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After the song they left the stage.
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The light on the stage was too strong.
This is a genuine build, and worth taking apart. Sceno (rank 1505, so you met it a few hundred words ago) is a scene: the thing that happens. Add --, the suffix for the place where something happens, and you get the place where scenes happen - the stage. The same suffix gives from (a school), o from (a kitchen) and from (a church). Learn -- once and you have several hundred nouns for free; the whole affix system is laid out in word building.
Keep the two apart in use. A play has many but one . The wider theatrical sense also works: politika , on the political stage. For the whole building rather than the boards, use teatro.
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