deltoton

Latin noun
loaned from Greek

Last edited: 2025-01-30
Primary meaning Triangulum
Literal translation shaped like the Greek letter Delta
Variants
deltoton
Edited by
Triangulum constellation

succedit iniquo divisis spatio, quod terna lampade crispans conspicitur, paribus Deltoton nomine sidus ex simili dictum

‘There follows, with two equal sides parted by one unequal, a sign seen flashing with three stars and named Deltoton, called after its likeness.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.351 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 32-33

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). deltoton (Lemma #2015). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) deltoton (Lemma #2015), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2015,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {deltoton ({Lemma} #2015)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2015/},
}