recessus

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-08-30
Meanings
Literal translation
retreat
Categories
planetary motion
Related Lemmata 2 ›

1. retrograde motion

1.a retrograde motion planetary motion

cum tempestatumque caeli conversiones commutationesque tantae fiant accessu stellarum et recessu ...

‘since, through the procession and retrogression of the stars, the great variety and change of the seasons and of temperature take place ...’

— 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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). recessus (Lemma #2751). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). recessus (Lemma #2751). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). recessus (Lemma #2751). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) recessus (Lemma #2751), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2751,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {recessus ({Lemma} #2751)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2751/},
}