aufero

Latin verb

Last edited: 2025-05-20
Primary meaning to subtract
Literal translation to carry away
Variants
aufero
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to subtract mathematical operation, arithmetical operation

namque Aries totidem deducit noctibus horas quot prius abstulerant proprio sub nomine Pisces,

‘For the Ram deducts as many hours from the nights as the Fishes had previously taken away on their own account’

— Manilius, Astronomica 3.469 f

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 200-201

to move away term of motion

ac vices reddi, eosdem solis radios luna interpositu suo auferente terrae terraque lunae: hac subeunte repentinas obduci terrae tenebras rursumque illius umbra sidus hebetari

‘they retaliate on one another, the same rays of the sun being taken away from the earth by the moon intervening and from the moon by the earth: at the transit of the former a sudden shadow passes over the earth, and in return the shadow of the latter dims the heavenly body (the moon)’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.47

Genre: encyclopedia
Provenance: Rome
Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aufero (Lemma #2378). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aufero (Lemma #2378). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). aufero (Lemma #2378). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) aufero (Lemma #2378), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2378,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {aufero ({Lemma} #2378)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2378/},
}