〈στρέφομαι〉 strephomai ‘to turn’
〈τροπή〉 tropē ‘solstice’
〈τροπικός〉 tropikos ‘tropical’
〈volvo〉 ‘to turn’
〈verso〉 ‘to turn’
τρέπω
trepō
Greek verb
Last edited: 2025-04-02| Primary meaning | to turn |
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| Literal translation | to turn |
| Variants | τρέπω trepō |
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to turn verb of motion
Μετὰ μέντοι γε τὴν θερινὴν τροπὴν οὐκέτι πρὸς τὰς ἄρκτους παροδεύων ὁ ἥλιος θεωρεῖται, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὰ ἕτερα μέρη τρέπεται τοῦ κόσμου, διὸ καὶ κέκληται τροπικός.
‘Since after the summer solstice though the sun is no longer observed travelling to the north, but it turns itself to the other parts of the cosmos, for this reason it (i.e., the summer tropic) has been named “tropical” too.’
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2025). τρέπω (Lemma #5453). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2025). τρέπω (Lemma #5453). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/
MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2025). τρέπω (Lemma #5453). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/
Harvard
Peeters, T. (2025) τρέπω (Lemma #5453), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac5453,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas},
year = {2025},
title = {τρέπω ({Lemma} #5453)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/5453/},
}