stazione

• statione (obsolete spelling)

Learned borrowing from Latin statiōnem. Doublet of stagione, stazzo, stazzone, and stazio, of which the first three were inherited from Latin, while the last was borrowed.

• IPA^(key): /statˈt͡sjo.ne/

• Audio (“una stazione”)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -one
• Hyphenation: sta‧zió‧ne

stazione f or (archaic) m (plural stazioni)

1. position, posture
2. a stopping place
   • 1840, Alessandro Manzoni, “Capitolo XXX [Chapter 30]”, in I promessi sposi‎, Tip. Guglielmini e Redaelli, page 577:

     Si disputava quali fossero i reggimenti più indiavolati, se fosse peggio la fanteria o la cavalleria; si ripetevano, il meglio che si poteva, certi nomi di condottieri; d’alcuni si raccontavan l’imprese passate, si specificavano le stazioni e le marce

     There were arguments about which regiments were the wildest; about whichever was worse between infantry and cavalry; some repeated, as best as they could, some names of leaders; the past endeavours/endeavors of some of those were being told, their stops and marches were being specified

   1. stopping, halting (of vehicles)

      Synonyms: arresto, fermata

   2. (Christianity) station (any of the Stations of the Cross)
   3. (astronomy) station (apparent standing still of a superior planet)
3. station (stopping place for ground transportation)

   stazione ferroviaria ― railway station

   • 1904, Luigi Pirandello, “7. Cambio treno”, in Il fu Mattia Pascal [The Late Mattia Pascal]‎, published 1919, page 88:

     Alla prima stazione italiana comprai un giornale, con la speranza che mi facesse addormentare. Lo spiegai, e al lume del lampadino elettrico, mi misi a leggere.

     At the first Italian station, I bought a newspaper, hoping it would put me to sleep. I unfolded it, and I started reading by the light of the electric lamp.

4. (by extension, mining) station
5. a place of residence
6. (palaeoethnology) a type of prehistorical human settlement
7. (biogeography) a place inhabited by one or more species

   Synonym: biotopo

8. a vacation place
9. a place where workers are stationed
   1. station (place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task)
   2. station (place used for broadcasting radio or television)
   3. store
      • 1343, Giovanni Boccaccio, Amorosa visione [Loving Vision]‎, published 1833, page 48:

        E secondochè alcuni degni di fede raccontano, […] egli essendo una volta tra le altre in Siena, e avvenutosi per accidente alla stazione d'uno speziale

        And according to some reliable sources, one of the times he [Dante] was in Siena, and had by chance happened upon a grocer's store

• The noun is nowadays regarded as feminine only; its usage as masculine is obsolete.

• → Maltese: stazzjon

• stazione in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana