cinctor

From cingō (“to encircle; gird on”) + -tor (“-er”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkiːŋk.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃiŋk.tor]

cīnctor m (genitive cīnctōris); third declension (rare)

1. (Late Latin) a girdle-wearer; one who girds
2. (Medieval Latin) a girdle, belt

   Synonym: cīnctus

   • c. 1382, "Heu quanta...", (Cotton Cleopatra B.ii):^[1][2]

     Minores induerent pannum viliorem / et de corda cannabi induerent cinctorem

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Defined in a Greek-Latin gloss as ζώστης (zṓstēs), from ζώννῡμῐ (zṓnnūmĭ, “to gird”) and -της (-tēs, “-er”).

Third-declension noun.

• “cinctor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cinctor”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “cinctor”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC