caestus
English edit
Noun edit
caestus (plural caesti or caestuses)
- 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
- 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