dominium

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning rulership
Literal translation rulership
Variants
dominium
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rulership astrological concept

quia post Arietem ad Taurum secundo loco Luna transitum facit, Venus geniturae dominium possidebit

‘because after Aries the Moon moves into Taurus in the second place, Venus [i. e. the ruler of Taurus] will possess rulership of the chart’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 3.19.4

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. 1.244

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dominium (Lemma #1172). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dominium (Lemma #1172). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dominium (Lemma #1172). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) dominium (Lemma #1172), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1172,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {dominium ({Lemma} #1172)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1172/},
}