dies natalis

Latin · noun
variant natalis dies
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2025-01-20
Meanings
Literal translation
birthday
Categories
point in time
temporal expression
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. birthday

1.a 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: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2743,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {dies natalis ({Lemma} #2743)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2743/},
}