BELT Copy link • BELTcingulum: zona (girdle: the latter a Greek term, used of the zona virginalis, removed on the day of marriage, and zona muliebris, especially of Grecian ladies: of men only as used to hold money, instead of a purse: cingulum is also used as the substitute for a purse; and both as “zone” in the astronomical and geographical sense): cestus (any tie, according to Varr., especially the girdle of Venus). For a sword, balteus.