locus parentum

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning place of parents
Literal translation place of parents
Variants
locus parentum
parentum locus
Edited by
place of parents astrological place

4th astrological place

parentum in quarto

‘the [place] of the parents [is] in the fourth [sign]’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.14.3

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. 1.58

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus parentum (Lemma #979). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus parentum (Lemma #979). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). locus parentum (Lemma #979). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) locus parentum (Lemma #979), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac979,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {locus parentum ({Lemma} #979)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/979/},
}