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cestus
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?st?s/
Etymology 1
From Latin caestus.
Noun
cestus (plural cestuses or cestus or cesti)
- 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.
- 1994 August, Carl Brown, Nunchucks and Throwing Stars in Your State? A State-byState Survey of Martial Arts Weapons Laws, Black Belt, page 81,
Etymology 2
From Latin cestus.
Noun
cestus (plural cesti)
- (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.
- 1826, Joanna Baillie, The Martyr, Act 2.
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
- a girdle, tie, band or strap worn around the upper body, directly under the breast
- 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
- 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
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cests
English
Noun
cests
- plural of cest
Anagrams
- Stecs, sects
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