conversio

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning revolution
Literal translation revolution
Variants
conversio
Edited by
revolution astronomical term

quantis etiam conversionibus maior [...] perficeretur annus

‘which number of revolutions it takes to make the greater year’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.0.5

Genre: astrological compendium
Provenance: Sicily
Date: ca. 334 CE

Firmicus Maternus. 1897. Ivlii Firmici Materni Matheseos Libri VIII, ed. W. Kroll, F. Skutsch. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. 1.2

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). conversio (Lemma #835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). conversio (Lemma #835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). conversio (Lemma #835). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) conversio (Lemma #835), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac835,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {conversio ({Lemma} #835)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/835/},
}