summa

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning sum
Literal translation sum
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sum mathematical term

et omnium partium summa collecta, ab horoscope inchoans totas partes sequentibus divides signis

‘and when the sum of all degrees is collected, divide all degrees by the following signs, starting from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.32.21

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. 2.180


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). summa (Lemma #1371). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). summa (Lemma #1371). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). summa (Lemma #1371). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) summa (Lemma #1371), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1371,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {summa ({Lemma} #1371)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1371/},
}