cest

Latin cestus.

• IPA^(key): /sɛst/
• Rhymes: -ɛst

cest (plural cests)

1. Alternative form of cestus (“woman's girdle”).
   • 1746, William Collins, Ode on the Poetical Character:

     The cest of amplest power is given

• “cest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sɛst]

cest

1. genitive plural of cesta

From Old French cist.

cest

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

   cest honneur

   this honor

• French: cet

cest

1. alternative form of c'est

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃest/

ċest f

1. alternative form of ċist

Strong ō-stem:

cest m (oblique and nominative feminine singular ceste)

1. alternative form of cist

• cefaist (literary)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /kɛsd/, [kʰɛst]
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /keːsd/, [kʰeːst], /kɛsd/, [kʰɛst]

cest

1. second-person singular preterite of cael