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, part of zodiac sign, irregular zodiacal 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

Cite this entry

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: November 5, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1182,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {senacher ({Lemma} #1182)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1182/},
}