κύκλος

kuklos
Greek · noun
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2025-03-25

Meanings
Literal translation
circle
Categories
geometrical shape
Related Lemmata 11

1. circle

1.a circle geometrical shape

Τῶν δὲ ἐν τῇ σφαίρᾳ κύκλων οἱ μὲν εἰσι παράλληλοι, οἱ δὲ λοξοί, οἱ δὲ διὰ τῶν πόλων.

‘Of the circles on the sphere, some are parallel, some are oblique, and some are [passing] through the poles.’

— Geminus 5.1

Genre: astronomy Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 21


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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). κύκλος (Lemma #5439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). κύκλος (Lemma #5439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). κύκλος (Lemma #5439). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) κύκλος (Lemma #5439), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac5439,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {κύκλος ({Lemma} #5439)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5439/},
}