caestus
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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