area

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11
Meanings
Literal translation
threshing-floor
Categories
celestial phenomenon
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1. halo

1.a 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

Cite this entry
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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1779,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {area ({Lemma} #1779)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1779/},
}