menstruus

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning monthly
Literal translation monthly
Variants
menstruus
Edited by
monthly

Est itaque Luna aut synodica aut plena aut dichotomos aut menoides aut amficyrtos et per has mutata formas cursum menstrui luminis complet.

‘Therefore the moon is either new or full or half or crescent or gibbous and changed through these shapes she completes the course of monthly light.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.1.10

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. 1.199

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). menstruus (Lemma #1144). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). menstruus (Lemma #1144). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). menstruus (Lemma #1144). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) menstruus (Lemma #1144), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1144,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {menstruus ({Lemma} #1144)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1144/},
}