mala fortuna

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning place of bad fortune
Literal translation bad fortune
Variants
mala fortuna
Edited by
place of bad fortune astrological place

6th astrological place

et Mala Fortuna in VI. ab horoscopo signo constituitur.

‘and Bad fortune is located in the sixth sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.17.1

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. 1.60

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). mala fortuna (Lemma #1007). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) mala fortuna (Lemma #1007), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1007,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {mala fortuna ({Lemma} #1007)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1007/},
}