minutum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2024-11-03
Primary meaning minute
Literal translation lessened
Variants
minutum
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minute unit of celestial position

Singula signa triginta habent partes; pars est autem in signo tantus locus quantum Solis aut Lunae orbis in circuitu complectitur; sed una pars in minuta dividitur sexaginta.

‘Each sign has thirty degrees. A degree is as large a space in each sign as the Sun and Moon embrace in their circuit. One degree is divided into sixty minutes.’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.5.1

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. 1.46

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APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). minutum (Lemma #874). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). minutum (Lemma #874). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). minutum (Lemma #874). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) minutum (Lemma #874), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/ (Accessed: February 2, 2026).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac874,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2026-02-02]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {minutum ({Lemma} #874)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/874/},
}