solaris

Latin · adjective
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
of the sun
Categories
luminary
sun
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1. of the sun

1.a of the sun luminary, sun

sextam fere partem huius inmensi spatii quod circa terram circuli solaris animo conprehenditur inesse altitudinis spatio, lunae vero duodecimam, quoniam tanto breviore quam sol ambitu currit;

‘the measure of the sun‘s altitude comprises about 1/6th of this conjecturally estimated immense space of the solar circle round the earth, and the moon‘s altitude 1/12th, since the moon runs in a circuit that is much shorter than the sun‘s;’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.86

Genre: encyclopedia Provenance: Rome Date: 77-79 CE

Pliny. Natural History, Volume I: Books 1-2. Translated by H. Rackham. Loeb Classical Library 330. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1938.

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). solaris (Lemma #6058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). solaris (Lemma #6058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). solaris (Lemma #6058). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) solaris (Lemma #6058), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6058,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {solaris ({Lemma} #6058)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6058/},
}