caestus

== English == === Noun === caestus (plural caesti or caestuses) Alternative form of cestus. === Anagrams === Cuestas, Cusseta, causest, causets, cuestas == Latin == === Etymology === From Latin caedo (“to 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 ==== → English: cestus === 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