summus

Latin adjective

Last edited: 2024-11-25
Primary meaning highest
Literal translation highest
Variants
summus
Edited by
highest expression of relative position
north celestial pole cardinal point

(with implicit noun: signum)

sed quia per medium est tellus suspensa profundum, binis a summo signis discedit et imo.

‘But since the Earth is suspended in the middle of space, it is two signs separated from the north pole and two from the south.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.550 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 48-49

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). summus (Lemma #2032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). summus (Lemma #2032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). summus (Lemma #2032). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) summus (Lemma #2032), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2032,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {summus ({Lemma} #2032)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2032/},
}