aestus

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-10-07
Primary meaning summer solstice
Literal translation heat
Variants
aestus
Edited by
summer solstice season

quattuor et gradibus sua fila reducit ab aestu.

‘this circle withdraws its track four degrees away from that of the summer solstice.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 1.581

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 50-51

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aestus (Lemma #2035). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aestus (Lemma #2035). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aestus (Lemma #2035). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) aestus (Lemma #2035), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2035,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {aestus ({Lemma} #2035)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2035/},
}