copulatio

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
coupling
Categories
astrological concept
Related Lemmata 16 ›

1. aspect

1.a 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

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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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1147,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {copulatio ({Lemma} #1147)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1147/},
}