περιστροφή

peristrophē
Greek · noun
Edited by: Thomas Peeters
Last edited: 2025-03-31

Meanings
Literal translation
turning around
Categories
astronomical concept
Related Lemmata 2

1. rotation

1.a rotation astronomical concept

of a planet, star or of the cosmos

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


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APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). περιστροφή (Lemma #5452). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). περιστροφή (Lemma #5452). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). περιστροφή (Lemma #5452). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) περιστροφή (Lemma #5452), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac5452,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2025},
	title = {περιστροφή ({Lemma} #5452)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5452/},
}