Latin noun
Last edited: 2025-01-13| Primary meaning | zodiac sign |
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| Literal translation | sign |
| Variants | signum |
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[...] quid duodecim facerent signa
‘[...] what the twelve signs do’
Idcirco terris non omnibus omnia signa conspicimus. nusquam invenies fulgere Canopon donec ad Heliacas per pontum veneris oras;
‘That is why it is impossible to behold all the constellations in every part of the world. You will never find Canopus shining until you have crossed the seas and come to the shores of Rhodes’
Qui etsi causas ipsas non cernunt, signa tamen causarum et notas cernunt; ad quas adhibita memoria et diligentia et monumentis superiorum efficitur ea divinatio, quae artificiosa dicitur, extorum, fulgorum, ostentorum signorumque caelestium.
‘The careful study and recollection of those signs, aided by the records of former times, has evolved that sort of divination, known as artificial, which is divination by means of entrails, lightnings, portents, and celestial phenomena.’
〈—〉 twtw ‘zodiac sign’
〈ζῴδιον〉 zōidion ‘zodiac sign’
〈lu-maš〉 lumāšu ‘constellation’
〈constellatio〉 ‘conjunction’
〈εἴδωλον〉 eidōlon ‘constellation’
〈τεῖρος〉 teiros ‘constellation’
〈astrum〉 ‘constellation’
〈κατεστηριγμένον ζῴδιον〉 katestērigmenon zōidion ‘constellation’
@misc{zodiac823,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2025},
title = {signum ({Lemma} #823)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/823/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/823/},
}