dies natalis

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-01-20
Primary meaning birthday
Literal translation birthday
Variants
dies natalis
natalis dies
Edited by
birthday point in time, temporal expression,

Chaldaeis in praedictione et in notatione cuiusque vitae ex natali die minime esse credendum.

‘No reliance whatever is to be placed in Chaldean astrologers when they profess to forecast a man’s future from the position of the stars on the day of his birth.’

— Cicero, De Divinatione 2.42

Genre: philosophy
Provenance: Rome
Date: 44 BC

Cicero. On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination. Translated by W. A. Falconer. Loeb Classical Library 154. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1923. 470-471

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). dies natalis (Lemma #2743). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). dies natalis (Lemma #2743). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). dies natalis (Lemma #2743). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) dies natalis (Lemma #2743), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2743,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {dies natalis ({Lemma} #2743)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/},
}