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) IPA^(key): /kiːnkˈtoː.ri.um/, [kiːŋkˈt̪oːriʊ̃ˑ]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃinkˈto.ri.um/, [t͡ʃiŋkˈt̪ɔːrium]

Noun

cīnctōrium n (genitive cīnctōriī or cīnctōrī); second declension

swordbelt

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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.

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