Κύπρις

Kupris
Greek · noun
Edited by: Michael Zellmann-Rohrer
Last edited: 2025-02-04

Meanings
Literal translation
Cyprian one
Categories
planet
Related Lemmata 12

1. Venus

1.a 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: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac2834,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Zellmann-Rohrer, Michael},
	year = {2025},
	title = {Κύπρις ({Lemma} #2834)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/2834/},
}