Κύπρις
Kupris

Greek noun

Last edited: 2025-02-04
Primary meaning Venus
Literal translation Cyprian one
Variants
Κύπρις Kupris
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Venus planet

Καρκίνον αὖτε λάχεν (…) ἠματί⟨η⟩ Κύπρις

‘The Cyprian (Venus) has been allotted Cancer (and Scorpio and Pisces, as its triangle) by day’

— Dorotheus 1.1.2–3

Genre: astrological treatise
Date: 1st cent. CE?
Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Κύπρις (Lemma #2834). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Κύπρις (Lemma #2834). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/
MLA (9th)
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025). Κύπρις (Lemma #2834). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/
Harvard
Zellmann-Rohrer, M. (2025) Κύπρις (Lemma #2834), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac2834,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2025},
	title = {Κύπρις ({Lemma} #2834)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/},
}