alaioch (or: alaioc)

العيّوقal-ʿayyūq

n. ʿyq – ‘al-ʿayyūq’ (lit. ‘the preventer’) (star name: Capella, α Aurigae; name of the constellation Auriga) (astr.)

  1. Ptol. Almag. no. XII: Stellatio retinentis habenas id est alaioc

    Kuni.: صورة ممسك العنان وهو العيوق

  2. Ptol. Almag. no. 156, Baily 222: Que est super spatulam sinistram et dicitur hircus et est alaioch

    Kuni.: الذى على المنكب الأيسر ويقال له العنز وهو العيوق

  1. 2 Ptol. Almag.

< Arabic. Kunitzsch 1959, 119–121, no. 27. Kunitzsch 1974, no. XII. The Latin terms are not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.

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