trabs

Latin · noun

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-05-11

Meanings

1. board

Literal translation

board

1. board

1.a board celestial phenomenon, meteorological phenomenon

fireball phenomenon

Interim illud existimo eiusmodi ignes existere aere vehementius trito, cum inclinatio eius in alteram partem facta est et non cessit, sed inter se pugnavit; ex hac vexatione nascuntur trabes et globi et faces et ardores.

‘For the time being, I guess this: fires of this sort come into existence because the atmosphere undergoes severe friction when there has been a tilting of it to one side and there is no yielding, only internal struggle. From this vexation are produced fiery shapes, the so-called Boards, Balls, Torches, and Blazes.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.1.5

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume I: Books 1-3. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 450. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971. 16-17

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APA (7th)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). trabs (Lemma #1770). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1770/

Chicago (Author-Date)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). trabs (Lemma #1770). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1770/

MLA (9th)

Meinhardt, K. (2025). trabs (Lemma #1770). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1770/

Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1770,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {trabs ({Lemma} #1770)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1770/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1770/},
}