zodiacus
Latin edit
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ζῳδῐᾰκός (zōidiakós) κύκλος (kúklos, “little animal cycle”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /zoːˈdi.a.kus/, [d̪͡z̪oːˈd̪iäkʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d͡zoˈdi.a.kus/, [d̪͡z̪oˈd̪iːäkus]
Adjective edit
zōdiacus (feminine zōdiaca, neuter zōdiacum); first/second-declension adjective
- of or pertaining to the zodiac
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| 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 | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs | ||||
| Accusative | zōdiacum | zōdiacam | zōdiacum | zōdiacōs | zōdiacās | zōdiaca | |
| Ablative | zōdiacō | zōdiacā | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs | |||
| Vocative | zōdiace | zōdiaca | zōdiacum | zōdiacī | zōdiacae | zōdiaca | |
Noun edit
zōdiacus m (genitive zōdiacī); second declension
- the zodiac
- 1581, Christophori Clavii Bamburgensis ex Societate Iesu in Sphaeram Ioanis de Sacro Bosco Commentarius, page 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.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zōdiacus | zōdiacī |
| Genitive | zōdiacī | zōdiacōrum |
| Dative | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs |
| Accusative | zōdiacum | zōdiacōs |
| Ablative | zōdiacō | zōdiacīs |
| Vocative | zōdiace | zōdiacī |
References edit
- “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