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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?st?s/

Etymology 1

From Latin caestus.

Noun

cestus (plural cestuses or cestus or cesti)

1. A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal.
   • 1994 August, Carl Brown, Nunchucks and Throwing Stars in Your State? A State-byState Survey of Martial Arts Weapons Laws, Black Belt, page 81,

     It is against Massachusetts law to carry on your person or in a vehicle any stiletto, dagger, ballistic knife, dirk knife, doubl-edged knife, switchblade knife, slungshot, blowgun, blackjack, metallic knuckles, nunchaku (also referred to as “klackers” or “kung fu sticks” in Massachusetts law), shuriken or similar pointed star-like objects intended to injure a person when thrown, armband with metallic spikes, points or studs, cestus weighted with metal or other substance and worn on the hand, manriki gusari or similar length of chain with weighted ends, or billy club.

   • 2011, James Edward Raggi, IV, Lamentations of the Flame Princess: Weird Fantasy Role-Playing (Grindhouse Edition), Rules Book, ?ISBN, page 25:

     'Cestus': This includes all sorts of fist wrappings and brass knuckle weapon types.

Etymology 2

From Latin cestus.

Noun

cestus (plural cesti)

1. (obsolete) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.
   • 1826, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr, Act 2.

     With pasture slopes, and flocks just visible;

     Then, further still, soft wavy wastes of forest,
     

     In all the varied tints of sylvan verdure,
     

     Descending to the plain; then, wide and boundless,
     

     The plain itself, with towns and cultured tracts,
     

     And its fair river gleaming in the light,
     

     With all its sweepy windings, seen and lost,
     

     And seen again, till through the pale grey tint
     

     Of distant space, it seem'd a loosen'd cestus
     

     From virgin's tunic blown; and still beyond,
     

     The earth's extended vastness from the sight
     

     Wore like the boundless ocean.

See also

• Juno Receiving the Cestus from Venus by Joshua Reynolds on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• scutes

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ?????? (kestós, “stitched, embroidered”)

Noun

cestus m (genitive cest?); second declension

1. a girdle, tie, band or strap worn around the upper body, directly under the breast
2. the girdle of Aphrodite or Venus

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: cestus

Etymology 2

Variant of caestus, from caed? (“I cut in pieces”)

Noun

cestus m (genitive cest?s); fourth declension

1. boxing glove; a strip of leather, weighted with iron or lead, tied to a boxer's hands

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

References

• cestus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cestus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cestus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cestus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cestus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Latin cestus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?st/

Noun

cest (plural cests)

1. (obsolete) A woman's girdle; a cestus.
   • 1746, William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character

     The cest of amplest power is given

Anagrams

• 'tecs, CTEs, ECTS, ETCS, Stec, TCEs, TECs, sect

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?s?st/

Noun

cest

1. genitive plural of cesta

Middle French

Etymology 1

From Old French cist.

Adjective

cest

1. masculine singular of ce used before a vowel or a mute h followed by a vowel

Descendants

• French: cet

Etymology 2

Contraction

cest

1. Alternative form of c'est

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kistu, from Latin cista, from Ancient Greek ????? (kíst?). Cognate with Old Frisian kiste, Middle Dutch kiste (Dutch kist), Old High German chista (German Kiste), Old Norse kista.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??est/

Noun

?est f

1. box; coffer

Descendants

• Middle English: cheste, chist, chiste, kist, kiste, cyst, chyst, kyst, kyste, cæste
  • English: chest
  • Scots: kist

Old French

Adjective

cest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ceste)

1. Alternative form of cist

Welsh

Alternative forms

• cefaist (literary)

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /k?sd/, [k??st]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ke?sd/, [k?e?st], /k?sd/, [k??st]

Verb

cest

1. second-person singular preterite of cael

Mutation