sirios

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning Sirius
Literal translation Sirius
Variants
sirios
Edited by
Sirius star

In I. parte Leonis oritur Canicula quae a Graecis Sirios dicitur.

‘At 1° Leo rises the Little Dog which is called Sirios by the Greeks.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 8.10.1

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. 2.303

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sirios (Lemma #1477). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sirios (Lemma #1477). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). sirios (Lemma #1477). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) sirios (Lemma #1477), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1477,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {sirios ({Lemma} #1477)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1477/},
}