copulatio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning aspect
Literal translation coupling
Variants
copulatio
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aspect astrological concept

[...] quando et ad quas stellas plena feratur <vel> minuta luminibus, qualiter conditionis suae stellis iungatur, quando in eadem parte posita synodica se copulatione coniungat [...]

‘when and towards which planets it moves when waning, under which conditions it aspects the planets, when it comes into synodic aspect [= conjunction] in the same degree [...]’

— 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. 1.199-200


See also

video to be in aspect

testimonium perhibeo to be in aspect

radiatione pulsor to be in aspect

coniungo to be in aspect with

respicio to be in aspect

excipio to be approached by, have another planet come into aspect

coniunctio aspect

ἐπιβλέπω epiblepōto be in aspect with

βλέπω blepōto be in aspect with

𓍇𓏌𓅱𓁹 nwto be in aspect with

θεωρέω theōreōto observe

societas iuncta aspect

commercium aspect

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). copulatio (Lemma #1147). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). copulatio (Lemma #1147). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). copulatio (Lemma #1147). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) copulatio (Lemma #1147), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1147,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {copulatio ({Lemma} #1147)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/},
}