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alhileg (or: alchileg)
هيلاج hīlāǧ (or: haylāǧ)
n. hylāǧ – releaser, hyleg (starting point for calculating the length of life in Ptolemaic astrology) (astrol.) show/hide quotes-
Albu. Coni. tr. II, li. 510, see also version c, fn. 88: Sed scientia quantitatis vite eorum ex parte divisionis secunde … consideratur ex ascendente et ex medio celi et extrahitur ei alchileg [var. alhileg ]
Yama.: فأمّا معرفة كمّية أعمارهم من جهة القسم الثاني … فإنّه ينظر لذلك من الطالع ومن وسط السماء ويستخرج له الهيلاج
- 1 Albu. Coni.
The Arabic term is not documented in Lisān, Freytag, Lane, Dozy and Wehr.
< Arabic al-hīlāǧ < Middle Persian hīlāg, which is a calque from the Greek ἀφέτης. Kunitzsch 1977, 49–50. EIr s.v. ‘zodiac’. The Latin terms are not documented in MLW, DMLBS and LLNMA.