occidens

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2023-12-12
Meanings
Literal translation
sinking
Categories
cardinal direction
Related Lemmata 12 ›

1. west

1.a west cardinal direction

cur non [...] ad occidentem transferat orientique restituat

‘why it does not carry [...] over to the west and return it back to the east’

— 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. 1.3

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occidens (Lemma #854). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occidens (Lemma #854). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). occidens (Lemma #854). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) occidens (Lemma #854), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac854,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {occidens ({Lemma} #854)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/854/},
}