γράφω
graphō

Greek verb

Last edited: 2025-03-31
Primary meaning to describe
Literal translation to write
Variants
γράφω graphō
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to describe geometrical term

a geometrical shape

Θερινὸς δὲ τροπικὸς κύκλος ἐστὶν ὁ βορειότατος τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ἡλίου γραφομένων κύκλων κατὰ τὴν τοῦ κόσμου γινομένην περιστροφήν, ἐφ’ οὗ γενόμενος ὁ ἥλιος τὴν θερινὴν τροπὴν ποιεῖται, ἐν ῇ μεγίστη μὲν πασῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἡμέρα, ἐλαχίστη δὲ ἡ νύξ γίνεται.

‘The summer tropic is the northernmost of the circles described by the sun during the rotation that the cosmos is performing, on which the sun, when it is on it, makes the summer solstice, on which [the] longest day of all the [days] in the year and the shortest night fall.’

— Geminus 5.4

Genre: astronomy
Date: 1st century BCE

Geminus. 1975. Géminos, Introduction aux Phénomènes, ed. G. Aujac. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. 22


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). γράφω (Lemma #5451). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). γράφω (Lemma #5451). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). γράφω (Lemma #5451). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) γράφω (Lemma #5451), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac5451,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {γράφω ({Lemma} #5451)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5451/},
}