θερινός

therinos
Greek · adjective
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2025-02-03

Literal translation
of summer
Categories
calendrical concept
season
Related Lemmata 4

1. of summer

1.a of summer calendrical concept, season

Τροπὴ δέ θερινὴ γίνεται περὶ τὴν τῶν καυμάτων ἐπίτασιν ἐν Καρκίνου μιᾷ μοίρᾳ.

‘And summer solstice takes place around the intensification of the heat, (when the sun is) in the first degree of Cancer.’

— Geminus 1.9

Genre: astronomy Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 2


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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινός (Lemma #1270). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινός (Lemma #1270). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινός (Lemma #1270). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) θερινός (Lemma #1270), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1270,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {θερινός ({Lemma} #1270)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1270/},
}