The corpus record — Latin

cestus1

cestus1 · m

a girdle

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 6 · 5.84/10k
Controversiae 37 · 5.61/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
Thebais 2 · 0.32/10k

What it meant

1. cestus — Lewis & Short

cestus (caest-) or -ŏs, i, m., = kesto/s (lit. stitched, embroidered; hence,

I subst.; cf. Lidd. and Scott under kesto/s), a girdle, tie, belt, girth, strap, Cato, R. R. 25 Schneid. N. cr.; Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 6.—Particularly, the girdle of Venus, Mart. 6, 138; 6, 14; 14, 206 sq.; Serv. ad Verg. A. 5, 69.

2. cestus — Lewis & Short

cestus = caestus,

I a boxer's glove; v. caestus.

In the wild

ceston Martial, Epigrammata 14.207.1
CESTI Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 1.7.3
Ceston Martial, Epigrammata 1.92.3
Cestos Martial, Epigrammata 1.92.1
CESTI Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 10.6.2
Ceste Martial, Epigrammata 8.50.18

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. cestus (scan p. 109; entry #1518).

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