area

Latin noun
calqued from Greek

Last edited: 2024-11-11
Primary meaning halo
Literal translation threshing-floor
Variants
area
Edited by
halo celestial phenomenon

Ob hoc tales splendores Graeci areas vocaverunt quia fere terendis frugibus destinata loca rotunda sunt.

‘For this reason the Greeks called such shining lights “threshing-floors” because generally the places set aside for threshing grain are round.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 1.2.3

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. 24-25

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). area (Lemma #1779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). area (Lemma #1779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). area (Lemma #1779). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) area (Lemma #1779), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1779,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {area ({Lemma} #1779)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/},
}