Latin noun
Last edited: 2024-03-26| Primary meaning | cardinal point |
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| Literal translation | hinge |
| Variants | cardo |
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Nunc ad expositionem cardinum locorumque omnium transferatur intentio
‘Now we must give our attention to the cardinal points and places’
Caelum autem dividitur in circulos quinque, qui per mundi cardines eunt: est septemtrionalis, est solstitialis, est aequinoctialis, est brumalis, est contrarius septemtrionali
‘The sky is divided into five circles which pass through the cardinal points of the universe. In these five circles are the northern circle, the summer solstitial circle, the equinoctial circle, the wintry circle, and the one that is opposite to the northern.’
aera per gelidum tenuis deducitur axis libratumque regit diverso cardine mundum;
‘from there an insubstantial axis runs down through the wintry air and controls the universe, keeping it pivoted at opposite poles’
〈ἀνατολικὸν κέντρον〉 anatolikon kentron ‘Ascendant’
〈ἐπίκεντρος〉 epikentros ‘at a cardinal point’
〈ortus〉 ‘rising’
〈occasus〉 ‘setting’
〈radiatio cardinalis〉 ‘conjunction/square/opposition to the ascendant’
〈cardo primus〉 ‘cardinal point’
〈cardo secundus〉 ‘favorable place’
〈cardo transversus〉 ‘horizontal cardinal point’
@misc{zodiac971,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {cardo ({Lemma} #971)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/971/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/971/},
}