aquilo

Latin · noun
Edited by: Kierán Meinhardt
Last edited: 2024-02-13

Literal translation
north wind
Categories
type of wind
cardinal direction
Related Lemmata 6

1. north wind

1.a north wind type of wind

[...] quae sit aquiloni pars terrae [...] subiecta

‘which part of the earth is subject to the north wind’

— 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

2. north

2.a north cardinal direction

3. north-north-east wind

3.a north-north-east wind type of wind

A septemtrionali latere summus ere summus est aquilo, medius septemtrio, imus θρασκίας; huic deest apud nos vocabulum.

‘In the northern section the highest is Aquilo [N.N.E.], the middle Septemtrio [N.], the lowest is Thrascias [N.N.W.], for which there is lacking a word in our language.’

— Seneca, Natural Questions

Genre: philosophy Date: 62/63 CE

Seneca. Natural Questions, Volume II: Books 4-7. Translated by Thomas H. Corcoran. Loeb Classical Library 457. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. 108-109


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). aquilo (Lemma #856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). aquilo (Lemma #856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). aquilo (Lemma #856). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) aquilo (Lemma #856), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/ (Accessed: July 4, 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac856,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {aquilo ({Lemma} #856)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/856/},
}