orior

Latin verb

Last edited: 2024-05-07
Primary meaning to rise
Literal translation to rise
Variants
orior
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to rise astronomical event

[...] quoto anno unumquodque signum in genituris oriatur

‘[...] after how many years each particular sign rises in the charts’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.11.1

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. 1.54


to be born astrological concept

with a certain sign rising

Scorpios et Cancer fraterna in nomina ducunt ex semet genitos, nec non et Piscibus orti concordant illis.

‘Scorpion and the Crab endow their sons with the name of brother, and the progeny of the Fishes is also united with them.’

— Manilius, Astronomica 2.633 ff

Genre: astrological treatise

Manilius. Astronomica. Edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Loeb Classical Library 469. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 132-133


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). orior (Lemma #964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). orior (Lemma #964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/

MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). orior (Lemma #964). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/

Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) orior (Lemma #964), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac964,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2024},
	title = {orior ({Lemma} #964)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/964/},
}