zodiacal
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zoʊˈdaɪ.ə.kəl/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Adjective
zodiacal (comparative more zodiacal, superlative most zodiacal)
- (astronomy, astrology) Of or pertaining to the zodiac.
- 1683, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture”, in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearn, page 3:
- […] in some passages of the Old Testament they think they discover the Zodiacal course of the Sun […]
- 1912, Henryk Sienkiewicz, chapter 14, in Mary Webb Artois, transl., Through the Desert, New York: Benziger Brothers:
- For several evenings the pale twinkling of the somber zodiacal stars lighted up the west side of the heavens for some time after the sun had set.
- 1959, Muriel Spark, chapter 2, in Memento Mori, New York: New Directions, published 2000:
- She knew by heart everyone’s Zodiacal sign.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
- In the zodiacal procession of the poles, the 25,920-year cycle, Lascaux is the time of Virgo, and Virgo is associated with artistic excellence and discrimination.
Derived terms
- exozodiacal
- zodiacal band
- zodiacal cloud
- zodiacal dust
- zodiacal light
- zodiacal parallel
Translations
of or pertaining to the zodiac
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French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zɔ.dja.kal/
Audio (file)
Adjective
zodiacal (feminine zodiacale, masculine plural zodiacaux, feminine plural zodiacales)
Further reading
- “zodiacal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -al
- Hyphenation: zo‧dia‧cal
Related terms
Further reading
- “zodiacal”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /zo.d͡ʒi.aˈkaw/ [zo.d͡ʒɪ.aˈkaʊ̯], (faster pronunciation) /zo.d͡ʒjaˈkaw/ [zo.d͡ʒjaˈkaʊ̯]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /zu.djɐˈkal/ [zu.ðjɐˈkaɫ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /zu.djɐˈka.li/ [zu.ðjɐˈka.li]
- Rhymes: -al, -aw
- Hyphenation: zo‧di‧a‧cal
Adjective
zodiacal m or f (plural zodiacais, not comparable)
Related terms
Further reading
- “zodiacal” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zo.di.aˈkal/
Adjective
zodiacal m or n (feminine singular zodiacală, masculine plural zodiacali, feminine and neuter plural zodiacale)
Declension
Declension of zodiacal
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | zodiacal | zodiacală | zodiacali | zodiacale | ||
definite | zodiacalul | zodiacala | zodiacalii | zodiacalele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | zodiacal | zodiacale | zodiacali | zodiacale | ||
definite | zodiacalului | zodiacalei | zodiacalilor | zodiacalelor |
Further reading
- zodiacal in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /θodjaˈkal/ [θo.ð̞jaˈkal]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /sodjaˈkal/ [so.ð̞jaˈkal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: zo‧dia‧cal
Derived terms
Further reading
- “zodiacal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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