senacher

Latin · noun

variant sanacher

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11

Meanings

1. 18°–21° Aries

1.a 18°–21° Aries decan

Aries. In hoc signo, idest in Ariete, quae sint partes plenae, quae vacuae, speciali significatione monstrabimus. Itaque in Ariete plenae partes XII, vacuae partes XVIII. I locus partes III vacuus II locus partes V Senator [idest asiccan] III locus partes IX vacuus IV locus partes IV Senacher [idest sentafora] V locus partes V vacuus VI locus partes IV Sentacher [uaucate idest asentacer]

‘Aries: In that sign, i. e. Aries, some degrees are full and some are empty. We will show this using a special figure. Therefore there are 12° full and 18° empty in Aries. 1. 3° empty 2. 5° Senator [i.e. Asiccan] 3. 9° empty 4. 4° Senacher [i.e. Sentafora] 5. 5° empty 6. 4° Sentacher [Uaucate i.e. Asentacer]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.22.8

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. 1.266-267

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APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). senacher (Lemma #1182). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). senacher (Lemma #1182). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2024). senacher (Lemma #1182). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/

Harvard

Meinhardt, K. (2024) senacher (Lemma #1182), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1182,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {senacher ({Lemma} #1182)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/},
}