English edit

Noun edit

caestus (plural caesti or caestuses)

  1. Alternative form of cestus

Anagrams edit

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Latin caedo (I cut) +‎ -tus (result of action suffix).

Noun edit

caestus m (genitive caestūs); fourth declension

  1. a type of boxing glove made from a strap of bull's hide loaded with iron or lead balls

Declension edit

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative caestus caestūs
Genitive caestūs caestuum
Dative caestuī caestibus
Accusative caestum caestūs
Ablative caestū caestibus
Vocative caestus caestūs

Descendants edit

  • English: cestus

References edit

  • caestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caestus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • caestus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • caestus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin