septemtrio

Latin · noun

Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-11-11

Meanings

1. north

2. north-wind

Literal translation

seven oxen

1. north

1.a 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.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.16.1

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 104-105

2. north-wind

2.a 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.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.16.6

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 108-109

Cite this entry

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: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{zodiac1823,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {septemtrio ({Lemma} #1823)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1823/},
}