defero

Latin verb

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning to allot
Literal translation to allot
Variants
defero
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to allot astrological concept

a timespan to a time lord

Cum Iovi X anni et IX menses delati fuerint, ipse sibi primus ex omni hoc tempore XII vindicat menses.

‘When ten years and nine months are allotted to Jupiter, he himself takes twelve months.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.34.3

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. 2.193

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defero (Lemma #1403). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defero (Lemma #1403). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). defero (Lemma #1403). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) defero (Lemma #1403), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1403,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {defero ({Lemma} #1403)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1403/},
}