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English
Noun
caestus (plural caesti or caestuses)
- Alternative form of cestus
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From Latin caedo (“I cut”) + -tus (result of action suffix).
Noun
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
Fourth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “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