prosceniumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• proscænium

語源

From Latin proscaenium (“in front of the scenery”), from Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskḗnion), from πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene building”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹəʊˈsiː.ni.əm/
  • (米国発音) IPA^(key): /pɹoʊˈsiː.ni.əm/

名詞

proscenium (複数形 prosceniums または proscenia)

1. (in a modern theater) The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
   • 2023 June 15, Manohla Dargis, “‘Asteroid City’ Review: Our Town and Country”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.

2. (in an ancient theater) The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
3. (in an ancient theater) The row of columns at the front the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.
   • 1936, Roy C. Flickinger, The Greek Theater and Its Drama, 4th edition, page 58:

     The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).

4. A proscenium arch.
   • 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 19:

     Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.

等位語

派生語

Latin

別の表記

• proscaenium

語源

From Ancient Greek προσκήνιον (proskḗnion), from πρό (pró, “before”) + σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene building”).

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /prosˈkeː.ni.um/, [prɔs̠ˈkeːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /proʃˈʃe.ni.um/, [proʃˈʃɛːnium]

名詞

proscēnium n (genitive proscēniī または proscēnī); second declension

1. proscenium

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

派生した語

• → Catalan: prosceni (learned)
• → English: proscenium
• French: proscénium
• Italian: proscenio

参照

• “proscenium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proscenium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette