alhileg (or: alchileg)

هيلاجhīlāǧ (or: haylāǧ)

n. hylāǧ – releaser, hyleg (starting point for calculating the length of life in Ptolemaic astrology) (astrol.)

  1. 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. 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.

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