splendor

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning brightness
Literal translation brightness
Variants
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brightness noun

Quinta pars Leonis habet stellam lucido splendore fulgentem.

‘The fifth degree of Leo has a star shining with brightness full of light.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.2.2

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. 2.69


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). splendor (Lemma #1321). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). splendor (Lemma #1321). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). splendor (Lemma #1321). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) splendor (Lemma #1321), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1321,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {splendor ({Lemma} #1321)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1321/},
}