cinctorium

Latin

Etymology

From cingō (“to gird”) +‎ -tōrium (noun-forming suffix, used to form the names of some instruments or tools); compare also cīnctus (“girdle, belt”), cīnctūra (“girdle, belt”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kiːŋkˈtoː.ri.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃiŋkˈtɔː.ri.um]

Noun

cīnctōrium n (genitive cīnctōriī or cīnctōrī); second declension

1. swordbelt

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	cīnctōrium	cīnctōria
genitive	cīnctōriī cīnctōrī1	cīnctōriōrum
dative	cīnctōriō	cīnctōriīs
accusative	cīnctōrium	cīnctōria
ablative	cīnctōriō	cīnctōriīs
vocative	cīnctōrium	cīnctōria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “cinctorium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cinctorium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cinctorium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.