zodiacus

Latin
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

  1. 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

  1. 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.

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
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