Cestius

== Latin == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈkɛs.ti.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈt͡ʃɛs.ti.us] === Proper noun === Cestius m sg (genitive Cestiī or Cestī); second declension a Roman nomen gentile, gens or "family name" famously held by: Lucius Cestius Pius, a Roman rhetorician ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun, singular only. 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Derived terms ==== Cestia Cestiānus === References === “Cestius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “Cestius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.