catafora

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning the sign after a cardinal point
Literal translation setting
Variants
catafora
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the sign after a cardinal point astrological house, zodiac sign quality

= the place preceding a cardinal place

solus in cardinibus geniturae fuerit inventus vel in cataforis vel in anaforis eorum

‘alone on an angle or on the anafora or catafora of an angle [= the sign before or after]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 3.5.5

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. 1.128

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). catafora (Lemma #1101). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). catafora (Lemma #1101). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). catafora (Lemma #1101). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) catafora (Lemma #1101), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1101,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {catafora ({Lemma} #1101)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1101/},
}