〈—〉 p.t ‘sky’
〈AN〉 šamû ‘sky’
〈οὐρανός〉 ouranos ‘sky’
〈lapsus caeli〉 ‘rotation of the sky’
caelum
Latin noun
Last edited: 2025-05-26| Primary meaning | sky |
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| Literal translation | sky |
| Variants | caelum |
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sky noun
caeli rotata vertigo
‘the spinning of the sky’
air cosmological concept
namque et hoc caelum appellavere maiores quod alio nomine aera, omne quod inani simile vitalem hunc spiritum fundit.
‘for the name ‘heaven’ was also given by our ancestors to this which is otherwise designated ‘air’—the whole of that apparently empty space which pours forth this breath of life.’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). caelum (Lemma #853). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). caelum (Lemma #853). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). caelum (Lemma #853). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) caelum (Lemma #853), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac853,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2025},
title = {caelum ({Lemma} #853)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/853/},
}