girdle Copy link Outline 1. cingŭlum (originally, a woman's g., the man's being cinctus, ūs2. zōna (a woman's g., esp. that worn before marriage)3. cinctus, ūs (worn by men for the sake of decency; drawers4. balteus • girdle: 1. cingŭlum (originally, a woman's g., the man's being cinctus, ūs: "cinctus et cingulum a cingendo; alterum viris, alterum mulieribus attributum," Varr. L. L. 5, 23 § 114): chiefly poet., and often pl.: fastening a golden g. 'neath her bosom, c. aurea subnectens mammae, Virg. Aen. 1, 492: the wonder-teeming g. (cestus), fecunda monstris c., Val. Fl. Fig.: to be stripped of one's g. (dismissed military service), cingulo exui, Cod. Just. 7, 38, 1. (N.B.--The plur. appears to be chiefly used of the feminine girdle; the sing. of the military girdle or belt.) 2. zōna (a woman's g., esp. that worn before marriage): to unfasten the g., solvere z., Cat. 2, extr.: Ov. (cf. Smith's Ant. s. v.): of the g. (or belt) of Orion, Ov. F. 6, 787. Dimin., zōnŭla, in similar sig., Cat. 61, 53. A maker of such g.s, zonarius, Cic. Fl. 7, 17. 3. cinctus, ūs (worn by men for the sake of decency; drawers: q. v. v. supr. 1): Varr.: Suet. Dimin., cinctĭcŭlus, Pl. 4. balteus: v. belt. (The strŏphium was not a girdle, but a kind of stomacher: Cat. 64, 65.)
GIRDLE Copy link • GIRDLE 1. cingulum: zona (the former as a pure Latin word; the latter borrowed from the Greek; zona includes also the finely-worked girdle of ladies): cinctura (cincture, very rare; Suet., Quint.: to wear a rather loose girdle, cingi fluxiore cinctura, Suet.). 2. v. Vid: To GIRD.