asentatir

Latin noun
loaned from Egyptian

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning 15°–20° Scorpio
Variants
asentatir
asentacir
sentacer
Edited by
15°–20° Scorpio decan

In Scorpionis signo quae sint partes plenae, quae vacuae, hoc demonstramus exemplo. Sunt autem partes plenae <XVI>, vacuae partes XIV. I locus partes IIΙ vacuus II locus partes V Sentacer [idest acente] III locus partes VI vacuus IV locus partes VI Tepisen [idest asentatir] V locus partes II vacuus VI locus partes V Sentineu [idest aterceni] VII locus partes III vacuus.

‘In the sign of Scorpio there are some full and some empty degrees. This we show by example. There are <16°> full and 14° empty. 1. 3° empty 2. 5° Sentacer [i.e. Acente] 3. 6° empty 4. 6° Tepisen [i.e. Asentatir] 5. 2° empty 6. 5° Sentineu [i.e. Aterceni] 7. 3° empty’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 4.22.15

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. 1.269

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). asentatir (Lemma #1219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). asentatir (Lemma #1219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). asentatir (Lemma #1219). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) asentatir (Lemma #1219), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1219,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {asentatir ({Lemma} #1219)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1219/},
}