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.
| 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