〈SI〉 iltānu ‘north’
〈septentrionalis〉 ‘northern’
septemtrio
Latin noun
Last edited: 2024-11-11| Primary meaning | north |
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| Literal translation | seven oxen |
| Variants | septemtrio |
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north cardinal direction
Sed ut ad id de quo agitur revertar, venti quattuor sunt, in ortum, occasum, meridiem septemtrionemque divisi
‘But to return to the subject which is being discussed: there are four winds, divided amongst the East, the West, the South, and the North.’
north-wind type of wind
A septemtrionali latere summus ere summus est aquilo, medius septemtrio, imus θρασκίας; huic deest apud nos vocabulum.
‘In the northern section the highest is Aquilo [N.N.E.], the middle Septemtrio [N.], the lowest is Thrascias [N.N.W.], for which there is lacking a word in our language.’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). septemtrio (Lemma #1823). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). septemtrio (Lemma #1823). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). septemtrio (Lemma #1823). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) septemtrio (Lemma #1823), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac1823,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {septemtrio ({Lemma} #1823)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/},
}