〈δύσις〉 dusis ‘setting’
〈occasus〉 ‘setting’
〈locus coniugis〉 ‘place of the spouse’
〈diametrum dyticon〉 ‘descendant’
〈τὸ δῦνον〉 to dunon ‘descendant’
dysis
Latin noun
quoted from Greek
| Primary meaning | descendant |
|---|---|
| Variants | dysis |
| Edited by |
descendant astrological place, cardinal point
7th astrological place
in genituris cardines sunt quattuor, ortus occasus medium caelum immum caelum, quae loca a Graecis solent appellari his nominibus: anatole, dysis, mesuranima, ypogeon
‘In nativities there are four cardinal points, Rising, Setting, Midheaven, Lower Midheaven, which places are customarily given the following names by the Greeks: Rising (ἀνατολή), Setting (δύσις), Midheaven (μεσουράνημα), Below the Earth (ὑπόγειον).’
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dysis (Lemma #988). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dysis (Lemma #988). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2024). dysis (Lemma #988). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2024) dysis (Lemma #988), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX
@misc{zodiac988,
note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
year = {2024},
title = {dysis ({Lemma} #988)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/988/},
}