stagione
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Italian stagione (“season”). Doublet of station.
NounEdit
stagione (uncountable)
- A system for presenting opera, whereby each production is cast separately and has a brief but intensive run of performances.
- 2008 June 4, Anthony Tommasini, “In Charting Its Future, City Opera Chooses an Adventurous Path”, in New York Times[1]:
- Again, for New York to have a stagione house is an interesting departure.
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ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Latin stātiōnem, the accusative singular of stātiō. Cognate to stazione which is from the same Latin word but borrowed instead of inherited. Also a Doublet of stazzo and stazzone.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
stagione f (plural stagioni)
- season (quarter of a year, part of year with something special)
- (broadcasting) season (group of episodes)
- weather
- la stagione calda ― hot weather
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Cimbrian: stadjónge
See alsoEdit
Seasons in Italian · stagioni (layout · text) | |||
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primavera (“spring”) | estate (“summer”) | autunno (“autumn”) | inverno (“winter”) |
Further readingEdit
- stagione on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia it
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ReferencesEdit
- stagione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana