sinister

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning left
Literal translation left
Variants
sinister
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left adjective

of aspects

Scire etiam debemus quod sit dextrum trigonum, quod sinistrum. Dextrum trigonum est quod ab eo signo, a quo incipimus, retro est, sinistrum vero, quod abante; utputa Arietis dextrum trigonum est Sagittarius, sinistrum vero Leo

‘We must know too which is a right and which is a left trine. The right trine is that which is back of the sign from which we begin, the left trine is the one ahead. So, for instance, the right trine of Aries is Sagittarius, the left is Leo’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.22.4

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. 1.69

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sinister (Lemma #1018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sinister (Lemma #1018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sinister (Lemma #1018). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) sinister (Lemma #1018), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1018,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {sinister ({Lemma} #1018)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1018/},
}