pars tropica

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning tropic degree
Literal translation tropical part
Variants
pars tropica
tropica pars
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tropic degree astrological concept

0° Cancer, 0° Capricorn

Cum enim in tropicas Cancri venerit partes Saturnus, tunc iacturam patrimonii faciet

‘For when Saturn comes to the tropic degrees of Cancer, he will indicate loss of marriage’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 5.3.15

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. 2.33


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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars tropica (Lemma #1250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars tropica (Lemma #1250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). pars tropica (Lemma #1250). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) pars tropica (Lemma #1250), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1250,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {pars tropica ({Lemma} #1250)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1250/},
}