bona fortuna

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning place of good fortune
Literal translation good fortune
Variants
bona fortuna
Edited by
place of good fortune astrological place

5th astrological place

Bona Fortuna in quinto ab horoscopo signo collocatur;

‘Good fortune is located in the fifth sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.2

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.59

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bona fortuna (Lemma #1001). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bona fortuna (Lemma #1001). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). bona fortuna (Lemma #1001). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) bona fortuna (Lemma #1001), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1001,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {bona fortuna ({Lemma} #1001)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1001/},
}