dea

Latin noun

Last edited: 2023-09-19
Primary meaning place of the goddess
Literal translation goddess
Variants
dea
Edited by
place of the goddess astrological place

3rd astrological place

Dea est tertius ab horoscopo locus, id est tertium ab horoscopo signum;

‘The Goddess is the third place from the ascendant, i. e. the third sign from the ascendant’

— Firmicus Maternus, Mathesis 2.16.2

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. 1.59

Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
Chicago (Author-Date)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
MLA (9th)
Meinhardt, K. (2023). dea (Lemma #992). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/
Harvard
Meinhardt, K. (2023) dea (Lemma #992), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).
BibTeX 
@misc{zodiac992,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Meinhardt, Kierán},
	year = {2023},
	title = {dea ({Lemma} #992)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/992/},
}