zodiacus
Latin
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A 3rd century Roman mosaic containing images of the zodiac.
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῳδῐᾰκός (zōidiakós) κύκλος (kúklos, “little animal cycle”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /zoːˈdi.a.kus/, [zoːˈdi.a.kʊs]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /zoˈdi.a.kus/, [d͡zoˈdiː.a.kus]
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Adjective
zōdiacus (feminine zōdiaca, neuter zōdiacum); first/second declension
- of or pertaining to the zodiac
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | zōdiacus | zōdiaca | zōdiacum | zōdiacī | zōdiacae | zōdiaca | |
| Genitive | zōdiacī | zōdiacae | zōdiacī | zōdiacōrum | zōdiacārum | zōdiacōrum | |
| Dative | zōdiacō | zōdiacae | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs | zōdiacīs | zōdiacīs | |
| Accusative | zōdiacum | zōdiacam | zōdiacum | zōdiacōs | zōdiacās | zōdiaca | |
| Ablative | zōdiacō | zōdiacā | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs | zōdiacīs | zōdiacīs | |
| Vocative | zōdiace | zōdiaca | zōdiacum | zōdiacī | zōdiacae | zōdiaca | |
Noun
zōdiacus m (genitive zōdiacī); second declension
- the zodiac
- 1581, Christophori Clavii Bamburgensis ex Societate Iesu in Sphaeram Ioanis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius, p. 59
- Diuturna observatione deprehenderunt astronomi, caelos inferiores non moveri ab occasu in ortum super polos mundi, et per circulum aequinoctialem, sed super polos distinctos, nempe super zodiaci, et per circulum zodiacum.
- By long observation, astronomers have discovered that the lower heavens do not move from west into the east upon the world's poles and through the circle of the equinox, but upon different poles, specifically the poles of the zodiac, and through the zodiac circle.
- Diuturna observatione deprehenderunt astronomi, caelos inferiores non moveri ab occasu in ortum super polos mundi, et per circulum aequinoctialem, sed super polos distinctos, nempe super zodiaci, et per circulum zodiacum.
- 1581, Christophori Clavii Bamburgensis ex Societate Iesu in Sphaeram Ioanis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius, p. 59
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zōdiacus | zōdiacī |
| Genitive | zōdiacī | zōdiacōrum |
| Dative | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs |
| Accusative | zōdiacum | zōdiacōs |
| Ablative | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs |
| Vocative | zōdiace | zōdiacī |
References
- zodiacus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- zodiacus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- zodiacus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- zodiacus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers