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Imum Coeli

Imum Coeli noun: the point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.

Noun

Imum Coeli (uncountable)

  1. The point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.
    • Appropriately, perhaps, it would also be here that they would make the fatal discovery which would bring them, inexorable as the Zodiac's wheel, to their Imum Cœli. . . .2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 457

Origin of Imum Coeli

From Latin imum coeli (“bottom of the sky”).

Questions about Imum Coeli

What does Imum Coeli mean?
Imum Coeli means the point where the ecliptic crosses the northern meridian, said to represent the deep subconscious.
What part of speech is Imum Coeli?
Imum Coeli is a noun.

Words near Imum Coeli in the dictionary

  1. IMTA
  2. IMTAs
  3. Imtenan
  4. Imtiaz
  5. imu
  6. Imum Coeli
  7. Imura
  8. imuracetam
  9. imus
  10. Imuses
  11. IMUX

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