terra

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-12-12
Primary meaning earth
Literal translation earth
Variants
terra
Edited by
earth noun

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

‘which part of 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

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). terra (Lemma #857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). terra (Lemma #857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). terra (Lemma #857). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) terra (Lemma #857), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac857,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {terra ({Lemma} #857)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/857/},
}