assigno

Latin verb

Last edited: 2023-12-01
Primary meaning to allot
Literal translation to allot
Variants
assigno
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to allot astrological concept

a timespan to a time lord

Si Sol dominus temporum fuerit, id est cum ei X annorum et IX mensium fuerit assignatum tempus, omnia etiam in ipso quae in ceteris diximus, simili debes ratione perspicere

‘If the Sun becomes time lord, i. e. when 10 years and 9 months are allotted to it, you must look at it in the same manner which we described for the other planets’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 6.36.1

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. 2.198

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). assigno (Lemma #1405). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). assigno (Lemma #1405). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). assigno (Lemma #1405). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) assigno (Lemma #1405), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1405,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {assigno ({Lemma} #1405)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1405/},
}