lunaria
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Lunaria, from lūna or Lūna, from the white-silver color of the fruit similar to that of Moon.
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lunaria
- Compilation texts providing prescriptions and prognoses according to various astrological rules for all the days of a lunar month, similar to Byzantine Selenodromia and Brontologia , and the more ancient Prognostica (in turn based on ancient Assyrian texts).
References
- Brill's New Pauly, Lunaria
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