stazione Italian · revision 38212

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=before 1342, Domenico Cavalca|origins=la stō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /statˈt͡sjo.ne/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''stazione''' ''f'' or (archaic) m (plural stazioni)^(Wiktionary)

+ Old forms include [[roa-oit|stacione]], [[roa-oit|stazzione]] and [[roa-oit|statione]].^(GDLI)^(Wiktionary) In old Italian the word could also be masculine.^(Treccani 2011)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|la|statio|t=a standing still; post, station; abode]], a noun of action from [[m|la|stō|t=to stand]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tiō]].^(DELI 1999)^(Nocentini 2010)^(GRADIT 2003)^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The railway sense follows English [[m|en|station]], used for railways from 1830.^(DELI 1999)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ The inherited outcomes of the Latin word are [[m|it|stagione|t=season]], [[m|it|stazzo|t=sheepfold]] and [[stazzone]], and this noun is their learned doublet.^(Wiktionary)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(REW 1935) The Latin word was also taken into [[fr|station]] and [[es|estación]].^(Nocentini 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is in Domenico Cavalca, who died in 1342, with the sense “halt, stop; stopping place”.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003) DEI dates the word to the 13th century.^(DEI|3623) A volgarizzamento of Livy tells how the consul returned to his station with great booty after a victory.^(GDLI)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Old Italian used ''stazione'' for a lodging, a guard post and the visit to a church to gain an indulgence, and in the 16th century Daniele Barbaro used it for a place where ships lie at anchor.^(DEI|3623)^(Tommaseo–Bellini 1861) Astronomy called a ''stazione'' the point where a planet seems to stand still, as Francesco da Buti says before 1406 of the related adjective ''stazionario''.^(DELI 1999)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ The railways brought the main modern sense: a report of 1837 on the line from Venice to Milan speaks of porters at the two main ''stazioni'', and ''stazione ferroviaria'' is recorded in 1874.^(DELI 1999) Tommaseo (1873) has the Stations of the Cross and the scientific station, the resort sense is recorded in 1891, and ''stazione marittima'' in 1937.^(DELI 1999) Later the word covered radio and television stations, a police or carabinieri post and the service station.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * Before 1342 – Domenico Cavalca uses ''stazione'' for a stopping place.^(DELI 1999)^(GRADIT 2003)

+ * 16th century – Daniele Barbaro uses it for an anchorage.^(DEI|3623)

+ * 1837 – A report on the Venice–Milan railway uses it for railway stations.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1873 – Tommaseo records the Stations of the Cross and the scientific station.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1874 – ''Stazione ferroviaria'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1891 – The sense “resort” is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

+ * 1937 – ''Stazione marittima'' is recorded.^(DELI 1999)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|station]], the buildings and facilities where trains, buses or other vehicles stop to take on and set down passengers and goods; used alone, the railway station: ''Ci vediamo davanti alla stazione.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(rare)'' A halt, a stop; a stopping place.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # A [[m|en|resort]], a place for holidays or cures: ''stazione sciistica'', ''stazione termale''.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # ''(Christianity)'' Each of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A plant for sending or receiving signals; a radio station, a channel: ''Cambia stazione, questa musica non mi piace.''^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # A facility for a particular service: ''stazione meteorologica'', ''stazione di servizio''.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)^(Zingarelli 2010)

+ # The local post of the carabinieri or the police.^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(archaeology)'' A site of prehistoric settlement, ''(biogeography)'' a place where a species lives.^(GRADIT 2003)^(Sabatini–Coletti 2026)

+ # ''(astronomy)'' The point where a planet appears to stand still before reversing its motion.^(Devoto–Oli 2026)^(Treccani 2011)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[capostazione]]

+ * [[sottostazione]]

+ * [[autostazione]]

+ * [[stazionare]]

+ * [[stazionamento]]

+ * [[stazionario]]

+ * [[stazionale]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[stagione]]

+ * [[stare]]

+ * [[stato]]

+ * [[stazzo]]

+ * [[stazzone]]

+ * [[la|statio]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}