Etymology

Noun

1. The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.
2. The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.
3. 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.

Coordinate terms

• auditorium
• episcenium
• logium
• orchestra

• parascenium
• parodus
• thymele