navis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-31
Primary meaning the Ship
Literal translation ship
Variants
navis
Edited by
the Ship constellation

<In Arietis dextro latere in Arietis parte scilicet IV.> oritur Navis.

‘On the right side of Aries or in the 4th degree of Aries rises the Ship.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.6.1

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. 2.295

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). navis (Lemma #1461). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). navis (Lemma #1461). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). navis (Lemma #1461). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) navis (Lemma #1461), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1461,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {navis ({Lemma} #1461)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1461/},
}