θερινὴ τροπή
therinē tropē

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-03-31
Primary meaning summer solstice
Literal translation summer solstice
Variants
θερινὴ τροπή therinē tropē
τροπὴ θερινή tropē therinē
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summer solstice astronomical event

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

Θερινὸς δὲ τροπικὸς κύκλος ἐστὶν ὁ βορειότατος τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου γραφομένων κύκλων κατὰ τὴν τοῦ κόσμου γινομένην περιστροφήν, ἐφ’ οὗ γενόμενος ὁ ἥλιος τὴν θερινὴν τροπὴν ποιεῖται, ἐν ῇ μεγίστη μὲν πασῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἡμέρα, ἐλαχίστη δὲ ἡ νύξ γίνεται.

‘The summer tropic is the northernmost of the circles described by the sun during the rotation that the cosmos is performing, on which the sun, when it is on it, makes the summer solstice, on which [the] longest day of all the [days] in the year and the shortest night fall.’

— Geminus 5.4

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 22


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινὴ τροπή (Lemma #1271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινὴ τροπή (Lemma #1271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). θερινὴ τροπή (Lemma #1271). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) θερινὴ τροπή (Lemma #1271), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1271,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {θερινὴ τροπή ({Lemma} #1271)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1271/},
}