transitus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-05-26
Primary meaning transit
Literal translation movement across
Variants
transitus
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transit astronomical event, verb of motion

sed tunc malis fortioribus inplicantur, cum ad Capricornum vel ad Taurum Saturnus transitum fecerit

‘but they will be involved in more serious evils when Saturn moves across to Capricorn or Taurus’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 5.3.23

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. 2.36

admonens observandum frigidae Saturni stellae transitum

‘warning us to watch the transit of the cold star Saturn’

— Pliny, Natural History 18.209

Genre: encyclopedia
Provenance: Rome
Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). transitus (Lemma #1253). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). transitus (Lemma #1253). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). transitus (Lemma #1253). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) transitus (Lemma #1253), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1253,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {transitus ({Lemma} #1253)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1253/},
}