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aliouze (or: alioze)
الجوزاء al-ǧawzāʾ
n. ǧwz – ‘al-ǧawzāʾ’ (lit. ‘crossing the middle’, sc. of the sky) (name of the constellation Gemini) (astr.) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. XXIV: Stellatio geminorum et sunt aliouze
Kuni.: كوكبة التوءمين وهو الجوزاء
- 1 Ptol. Almag.
Kunitzsch 1974, no. XXIV.
See Lane.
الجون al-ǧawn
n. ǧwn – Alioth (star name: ε Ursae Majoris) (astr.) (lit. ‘the intensely coloured’) show/hide quotes-
Ptol. Almag. no. 23, Baily 33: Prima trium que sunt super caudam et est alioze
Kuni. version u, see fn.31: الأول من الثلاثة التى على الذنب وهو الذى هو الجون
- 1 Ptol. Almag.
The Latin translator obviously read al-ǧawzāʾ ‘Gemini’ instead of al-ǧawn. Kunitzsch 1959, 121–123, no. 29. Kunitzsch/Smart 2006, 56.
< Arabic. The Latin terms are not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.