circulus brumalis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-09-23
Primary meaning tropic of Capricorn
Literal translation winter-solstitial circle
Variants
circulus brumalis
brumalis circulus
Edited by
tropic of Capricorn spatial concept

Caelum autem dividitur in circulos quinque, qui per mundi cardines eunt: est septemtrionalis, est solstitialis, est aequinoctialis, est brumalis, est contrarius septemtrionali.

‘The sky is divided into five circles which pass through the cardinal points of the universe. In these five circles are the northern circle, the summer solstitial circle, the equinoctial circle, the wintry circle, and the one that is opposite to the northern.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions 5.17.2

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. 110-111

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus brumalis (Lemma #1848). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus brumalis (Lemma #1848). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). circulus brumalis (Lemma #1848). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) circulus brumalis (Lemma #1848), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac1848,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {circulus brumalis ({Lemma} #1848)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/1848/},
}