exortus aequinoctialis

Latin · noun
variant aequinoctialis exortus
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2026-10-14
Meanings
Literal translation
equinoctial rising
Categories
cardinal direction
wind direction
Related Lemmata 1 ›

1. due east

1.a due east cardinal direction, wind direction

numerosior ratio quattuor his interiecerat, Thrascian media regione inter Septentrionem et occasum solstitialem, itemque Caecian media inter Aquilonem et exortum aequinoctialem ab ortu solstitiali

‘The more numerous scheme had inserted four between these: Thrascias (N.N.W.) in the space between Septentrio (N.) and the sunset at the solstice (N.W.) and also Caecias (E.N.E.) in the space between Aquilo (N.E.) and the equinoctial sunrise (E.) on the side of the sunrise at the solstice’

— Pliny, Natural History 2.120

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). exortus aequinoctialis (Lemma #6081). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). exortus aequinoctialis (Lemma #6081). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2026). exortus aequinoctialis (Lemma #6081). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2026) exortus aequinoctialis (Lemma #6081), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/ (Accessed: November 5, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac6081,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-11-05]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2026},
	title = {exortus aequinoctialis ({Lemma} #6081)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/6081/},
}