〈cancer〉 ‘Cancer’
〈fauces piscis〉 ‘the throat of the Fish’
fauces cancri
Latin noun
Last edited: 2024-05-27| Primary meaning | the throat of the Crab |
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| Literal translation | throat of the crab |
| Variants | fauces cancri cancri fauces |
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the throat of the Crab animal part
6°–7° Cancer
in faucibus vero VI. et VII.
‘in the throat [of the Crab] however [are the degrees] 6 and 7’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). fauces cancri (Lemma #1589). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). fauces cancri (Lemma #1589). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). fauces cancri (Lemma #1589). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) fauces cancri (Lemma #1589), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1589,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {fauces cancri ({Lemma} #1589)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1589/},
}