divinitas

Latin noun

Last edited: 2025-05-05
Primary meaning divination
Literal translation divinity
Variants
divinitas
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divination noun

Nec hoc est admiratione dignum, cum sciamus inter ipsos quanta sit ipsa deorum naturae dissensio quantisque disputationum argumentis uim totam divinitatis conantur evertere

‘This is not surprising since we know how much difference of opinion there is among them about the nature of the gods, and with how many different theories they are trying to destroy the whole force of astrological divination.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 1.1.3

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. 1.5

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). divinitas (Lemma #863). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). divinitas (Lemma #863). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2025). divinitas (Lemma #863). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2025) divinitas (Lemma #863), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
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@misc{zodiac863,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2025},
	title = {divinitas ({Lemma} #863)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/863/},
}