caestus

caestus (plural caesti or caestuses)

1. Alternative form of cestus.

• Cuestas, Cusseta, causest, causets, cuestas

From Latin caedo (“I cut”) +‎ -tus (result of action suffix).

caestus m (genitive caestūs); fourth declension

1. a type of boxing glove made from a strap of bull's hide loaded with iron or lead balls

Fourth-declension noun.

• → English: cestus

• “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