Word origin · etymology
A medieval astrological loanword transmitted through Latin from Arabic.
Astrodienst’s reference glossary identifies cazimi as a Latin transliteration of Arabic kaṣmīmī and gives the gloss ‘as if in the heart’. Its account also relates the Arabic term to Greek egkardios. This is a glossary’s historical account, not an independently established full transmission history; spelling and transliteration vary, so the entry should not claim a single settled form beyond that qualified account.
How we know · epistemology
Solar-proximity classification in a named traditional rule
A calculation can report the chosen Sun-planet separation. Whether that separation is called cazimi, whether it is exempted from combustion, and what it signifies are school-specific interpretive rules. Longitude proximity is not a direct test of optical visibility, physical distance, or a planet's causal power.
William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.113 · solar conditions ↗William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.114 · combustion and cazimi ↗William Lilly: Christian Astrology, original p.115 · accidental fortitudes ↗
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